Promise

Ye lowlives

Laughing too much

Never close your eyes till the sun's coming up

Under slept, over dreamt

My whole life, trying to speak

But silent, with so much beneath it

That thick wind under the surface

You don't know me or my purpose

Or my promise, I got promise

And your hands and feet

For all of their grief

Turned out to be

Only your elbows and knees

You go farther, you're just starting to see

And you see that red pen

Hover in judgement

And that census, look get those numbers away from us

'Cause honest, we got nothing

In our pockets but thin wrists

And promise, we got promise

I'm waking up

Pull me from my sheet in the dark

As if in a dream lifting off

Let me feel it shift in my blood

Let me feel like I'm rising up

Out of all the ashes and dust

Out of all the past, that's done

I don't need what's long dead and gone, man, I got promise

I got promise

I got promise

Yeah, I got promise

Yeah, I got promise

Yeah, I got promise

Yeah, yeah, yeah I got promise

Yeah, we got promise