Promise to Keep lyrics

Love comes along,

it's so safe and secure.

Then it gets you so high

and it opens the door.

But each morning you wake

and you look yourself dead in the face.

Are you livin' a lie?

Have you fallen from grace?

Are you torn into bits

by the choice that you made?

And a voice in your heart

keeps on callin' you back to the mess. 

And you're all alone

and you're in so deep,

miles and miles to go

before you sleep.1

You got that promise to keep.

And you've got all those friends

and it hurts to say no.

But you ain't got the time

and you gotta let go

and there's so many favors 

you know you may never pay back.

In the still of the night,

so damn hungry for you,

so I pick up the phone 

just to talk it through.

But you're already gone.

It cuts like a knife, 

I can never go back.

And I'm all alone

and I'm in so deep.

As they raise the stakes,

it's gettin' steep.

I got a promise to keep.

Who's that knockin' at my door?

You can't come here anymore.

It ain't personal, you see,

it's just the way it's got to be.

I can't help myself no more,

I know what I got in store.

The promise I made so long ago,

the promise will never let me go, no, no.

There's a promise I want,

there's a promise I need,

there's a promise I made,

there's a promise I'll keep.

There's a promise I want,

there's a promise I need,

there's a promise I made,

there's a promise I'll keep.

There's a promise I wa-wa-wa-want,

there's a promise I need,

there's a promise I made,

there's a promise I'll keep.

There's a promise 

I wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-wa-want,

there's a promise I need.

1. A reference to lines from the famous poem "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost: "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep."

• Artist:Ellen Shipley
• Album:Breaking Through the Ice Age (1980)