Story Behind The Song

I spent a lot of time with a family member who had her heartbroken - and channelled her pain into these lyrics.

Song Description

The Promise is a song that wrestles with the shock and pain of a break up, and the battle for self-respect and wanting to appear resilient. It is Pop-Punk/Modern Rock, and pumps with energy and emotion from the first note.

Lyrics

Ever thought that there would be a day when we didn't speak, nothing to say??Well I...
It's not what I wanted, but I need it?

Cruel chance led us to meet this way, in a lonely group, on a hazy day, well I...?
It's not what I pictured, but I'll be it?

We came around it caught me out, it shot me down, you shot me down?
I called you out, you pushed me back, it broke around us all around.

When I call you with nothing to say with a lonely hope that you might have changed
Did I forget all my planning, and just leave it??

A cruel joke I think for life to play, all the many smiles from day to day were lies?
It's not that you felt it, you just need it??

I hold you straight I prop you up, open your eyes for you to see?
You never brace or save your face, you lay entire weights on me ??

You can lock away the promise you made me, and I can learn to love at last?
I really know you so much better than I know myself ?
You can turn to me to tell me you're sorry, you tried but time just goes so fast?
I really know you so much better than I know myself ??

I didn't care what all your friends would say and I didn't care that I had changed 'cos I?
I knew what I wanted, cos I'd had it?

This could never be a game for me, it's the same for me, a shame for me and it's there?and whether you're playing, it don't matter ??

You couldn't take when I was curt, you broke my heart when I was hurt?
Time lays it out for all to see, I never thought so less of me
?
We came around it caught me out it shot me down you shot me down?
I called you out you pushed me back it broke around us all around?
It broke around us like the house was built on lies, with all the conversations and I never realised?
I really know you so much better than I know myself

You can turn to me, to tell me your'e sorry; you tried but time just goes so fast
I really know you so much better than I know myself