Music

My Promises

drumkit, bass guitar - scott ligon
electric guitar and vocal - robbie fulks
strings - jubal fulks
horn - lauren varley

I always thought there was something about this song...still not sure what, though. Some discerning souls unqualifiedly dislike it. I think when you write songs, hundreds and hundreds of them, you naturally recycle a lot of themes and tones, so that when you strike one that is new to you and has no blatant precedent, you automatically value the song, and perhaps may overvalue it. Two things drove this tune's composition. One was John Cheever's stories. The other was socializing with a mangy old gospel singer at a wedding, a skinny bug-eyed guy with an abandoned first family and a smooth-talking style and a car trunk full of cassettes with his original Jesus music.

Lyrics

Straight from the sky
My promises
While you were sleeping they fell
Doesn’t the old town look well
In a clean light?

Long you forswore
My promises
Till one magic hour on the town
A white Zinfandel broke you down
And suddenly you stood before me naked
And suddenly my selfish lust was sacred
And suddenly we felt that we could fly

Those golden days
My promises
Freed you to blaze brilliant trails
All of your rivals in sales
They were buried.

Jesus foretold
My promises
Follow by faith not by sight
Watch not where I walk at night
Or you will see things you weren't meant to
A stolen kiss through a neighbor's window
And suddenly your faith in me will die

Long before we met
My promises
Spermlike, they wandered the void
Searching for dreams undestroyed
And when the rest is gone
My promises
Like a romance you read and forgot
But for one kink in the plot

And when the rest is gone
Don’t sit and dwell on me
Or squander your short years
On bitter fantasies
For mine is not the crown
It shines from up above
For Christ is truth
And Christ is love

And you must pursue love
No matter what you love
I love
To lie.

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