PROMISE

Released 2016 via Thesis & Instinct

1. Los Angeles

Her mouth, it was moving, but no sound was coming out and your back, it was turning, around

we were, always dreaming, of a day that would never come Los Angeles, Los Angeles, I'm burning up for you

Hangin out the window, holding on to an afternoon

She knew, how to teach those, boys to fight

we were, always yellin, at the night, it would never come And wanting, was it desire? you and I, we never won

Los Angeles, Los Angeles, I'm burning up for you

Well you walk the streets and you say goodbye

All along the river tonight

And if they tell you, you must go

Just look 'em in the eye

Say, "No, no, no my love is here"

2. YOU DREAM OF CHINA

You let the days pass. You let the night come.

You dream of China. You dream of no one.

I'm here to remind you, don't forget.

Forget it I'm here to remind you.

You call your father. You let it ring

You celebrate him

We are, gonna get it right

We are, gonna get it wrong

You let the phone ring. You let it pass

You want everything, you're afraid to ask

I'm here to remind you, don't forget. Forget it. I'm here to remind you

You want nothing. Cause nothing lasts except wanting

And want and get and need and pride

3. Don't Use Me up

Don't use me up

I wanted everything so don't use me up

Don't let me down

I'm really counting on you so don't let me down

Everything is easier when you wash it down

All your friends are your best friends

when you wash it down

So go meet the devil. Go meet Jesus

When you wash it down, when you wash it down Don't tie me up

I got no strings attached so don't tie me up

Don't let me go

I wanna hold you back so don't let me go

Everything is brighter when you wash it down

Everyone knows your name when you wash it down

So go meet the devil... Go meet Jesus.

When you wash it down.

We went down to water to be baptized

Don't let me down to the water to be baptized

4. Pack of Nobodies

You were downstairs in the kitchen learning to be my wife

A good kid on good advice

We didn't know it. We didn't know it

We don't know how to love

we don't know how to love we don't know

We fuck it up to get caught we get caught to fuck it up

We roam around, we roam around

You said, "you got something to prove man?"

I said, "baby I just might, stick around, learn to fight"

And we didn't know it.

I don't know how to love I don't know how to love I don't know And I'm gonna need you to be careful with me

Some day you're gonna have to come home

And I'm gonna need you to take care of me

And you're gonna need me too Wefuckituptogetlost,wegetlosttofuckitup

We roam around, we roam around

5. Take it Easy

Tell me what you've done to me,

can we please take it easy?

It'd be so lovely like a gloomy afternoon

To just take it is easy with you

Where do you go with your wiles and your woes Can we please take it slow?

Can we please take it easy?

Half of heartbreak is knowing the ropes

But a tight walker's toes are well worth the show I got a dime for every song that jives

and wouldn't you know that i'm half broke

Can we please take it easy?

Don't you stop, don't you stop, talking to me Don't stop talking to me

Will you whisper something sweet?

We're riding home, riding home in the evening and we're falling asleep

Don't I have a pretty little darlin?

Don't I have it made?

6. Come to me

Come to me when you know that you're ready

Come to me when you're home

And my mama said there'd be bluejays in the summer yeah my mama said there'd be apples in the fall

But my mama don't know a thing about loving

'Cept how to catch a man when he falls

So come to me when you're good and you're ready Come to me when you're home

Yes, come come to me... Come come to me

Come come to me when you're good and ready

And my mama said there'd be oranges in the winter Yeah my mama said there'd be blossoms in the spring And my mama sure knows a whole lot about loving

So come to me and I'll give you everything

We don't know what's best for us

we don't know what's next for us but I wanna find out We don't know the half of it, but I wanna find out

I don't know what you look like old and gray,

I hope that you will stay cause i wanna find out

And I don't care I don't care anymore

I just wanna find out

We don't care we don't care anymore.

We just wanna find out

7. Falling In On It

I was in danger. I was in need.

All I could see, my own reflection

I was in danger, I was in danger of falling in on me

And if you ever, give a thought, to growing old.

Then you know about falling in, falling in on it

If you give it all up. If you give it all away.

If you give it all up. You forget your name

The Lord, he comes down, most every night

yeah the Lord, he reminds me about falling in, falling in on him

I don't wanna know my name anymore, I don't wanna know my name You forget your name forget your name forget your name

I was in danger, of being in love, of being in love, just like I use to

I was in danger of falling in, falling in on you

And if you ever give a thought, to being someone

somebody else's

then you know, yeah you know

You don't belong to me you don't belong to me

I can't get use to you, getting use to me

8. The Antidote

I don't wanna lose ever again. I don't wanna lose, nobody

I don't wanna lose, ever again. I don't wanna lose, no

Down in the night, when the demons come in

Down by your body I was born to forget

And if you ever, turn to me honey

I will say your name

And in the morning, let me see those eyes

Tie me to your longing, I'll tie you down to mine

You stop believing , you go blind. I stopped believing.

Put me down in the dark, you come untied. I hear you singing To tell you the truth I was born a liar

Oh to be good, good this time

In light of the dark, when I was blind

He took off in the night he gave his daughters all he could give He had a son to fight, a face for weathering

We reconciled. We found it out. Goodnight. Goodnight

And if there's no God then what of love?

I give up. Goodnight. Goodnight

If we fall away in the swarm, hold onto me honey

9. Adagio

Go slow my love, go slow

I got a number for you. You got mine.

Go slow, if you can help yourself, Go slow, this time I'm a goner. I wanna get on that bus

The one that'll ride me to your front door

just to tell you how much

I'm a goner. I wanna get on that bus

The one that'll ride me all through the night

Just to tell you how much

10. Richard

Don't go to sleep. Don't close your eyes

If we stay up all night, then we stay alive

Gonna say my prayers for you. Say em every night Lord I want the same thing. Always want the same thing I wanna stay alive

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Pray for what you've got. And print the money at home

11. Light is Drainin

If I were to take you, take you in my arms, now hear me

I would surely lose you.

If I were to want you. I'd come calling, yeah I'd come calling If I were to love you, really really love you

I would surely lose you

And if you, and if you wanna know love

You will seek it, you will find it

If I were to have you, what is having someone else?

No I don't wanna have you

But holding you means someone

And holding's what we do to get it

If I were to lose you, really really lose you

Losing's what we did together

Take me into the wild

Come on come on come girl there ain't nothin we can do

Maybe he's just sleeping there but this light it'll come for you

Come on come on come girl, I don't really care

Take me into the wild and lay me down right there