promise

(verse)
i like ocean and tea before bedtime
i like cats and stars in the night sky
i like you talking for hours, reading me folks
and i like the way you can pick up all my jokes

i hate when people are slow walkers
i hate people kissing and i hate all the talkers
i hate when the anger is taking your mind
i hate and i love that you're everything i want

(pre-chorus)
but it's not real and i know
i should close my eyes before i go
dont tease me with those eyes baby
i cant take it anymore

(choruse)
and im not your only
dont want you to hold me
i know there's not a war that you'd win for me

stars are falling
i kept it all in
and i hear your name its like home's calling

i know it's over and i know you're not the one
but you promised
you promised, you promised, you promised

(verse)
i like old books with pages stained by years
i like songs that sound exactly like my fears
i like the moon when she's too tired to shine
guess that's why i loved a heart that was ruled by a mind

i hate how memories learn where i live
how they keep reminding why i had to leave
i hate that every road somehow returns to you
and i hate that if i went back, i'd never choose you

(pre-chorus)
but it's not real and you know
you're just a ghost i can never let go
don't look at me like that, baby
i'll break if you get too close

(chorus)
and i'm not your only
don't want you to hold me
i know there's not a war that you'd win for me

stars are falling
i kept it all in
and i hear your name, it's like home's calling

i know it's over and i know you're not the one
but you promised
you promised, you promised, you promised

(bridge)
you promised you'd be careful with the thing you asked to hold
you promised you'd return it warm but its just all cold
you promised me a garden then you salted every seed
you promised you would bleed for me then watched as i would bleed

you promised and i made a religion out of your mouth
every prayer i whispered was your name spoken out
god should be mad at me, he took the spark you lit
cause i built an altar from your name and i never quit

your arms were just a country where i never learned to bow
i built a language in your silence i still can’t speak out loud
i called it fate, i called it you, called it anything but truth
just to keep a little heaven in the ruins of my youth

(outro)
you promised ...
and the saddest part
the part that curls and stays
is that i'd still believe you
if you promised me today

Alternative, acoustic, ballad, Sad, Aggressive, Cinematic, Female Vocals, Harmonized Vocals, Acoustic Guitar