Empty Promise Land

Album: Sing It For A Lifetime (2022)
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  • I found my old diary today
    And it took my breath away
    To see the first time I ever wrote your name
    Next to a heart and a question mark
    The pages yellow, the ink still dark
    Oh, it might as well
    Have flowed straight from my veins
    We can't go back to the place
    Where we started from
    And I know we can't face
    What we've become
    That quiet boy whose secrets never crossed his lips
    That bright-eyed girl with the world at her fingertips
    Let them walk away
    Going hand in hand
    Don't make them stay
    In this empty promise land
    I saw your search history tonight
    Ivory Coast, a midnight flight
    Would you meet someone?
    Or go there on your own?
    On each side of this old bed
    I swear we might as well be dead
    Our bodies touch
    But out spirits lie alone
    We can't go back to the place
    Where we started from
    And I know we can't face
    What we've become
    This woman whose blood is boiling underneath her skin
    This lonely guy who's just longing for his dreams again
    Let them walk away
    Going hand in hand
    Don't make them stay
    In this empty promise land
    Let them walk away
    Going hand in hand
    Don't make them stay
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