Stage Fright Album

Empty Promises

Download available from


It's disconcerting when a stranger like you comes along and doesn't conform, but wants to be different. This is how things are done around here, so why can't you be like everyone else? Your way goes against the grain. It's all wrong. We were getting on fine until you arrived. Now you're putting doubt in our minds. Making us think. What are we? What were we? What will we be? 

 

You're blackening the sky. Bad things are happening to good people. Good things are happening to bad people. It's absurd. Life had meaning and relevance before, but now we're so confused. We're going to have to change. No more pretence and make believe. No more empty promises.

There's trouble in Boomtown 

Things are not going well 

There's a stranger in Paradise 

And he's making it Hell 

He doesn't dance to the music 

Doesn't join in the sin 

He just waits outside the city gates 

But he never comes in 


We don't know where he comes from 

We don't know who he is 

But he laughs at the people 

Their red blood 

Their blue eyes 

Their black hearts 

And their

Empty promises 


There's a rumour in Boomtown 

Yes, I've heard people talk 

They say there's gonna be 

An eclipse of the sun 

Yes it's gonna get dark 

And then there's the stranger 

That we don't understand 

He goes down to the riverside 

And he washes his hands 

We don't know where he comes from 

We don't know who he is 

But he laughs at the people 

Their red blood 

Their blue eyes 

Their black hearts 

And their

Empty promises

 

Things are different in Boomtown 

Seemed to change overnight 

It seems as soon as the city grew dark 

Everyone saw the light. 

There's no sign of the stranger 

It's like he didn't exist 

And though he'll not be forgotten 

I know he'll never be missed 


We don't know where he comes from 

We don't know who he is 

But he laughs at the people 

Their red blood 

Their blue eyes 

Their black hearts 

And their

Empty promises

 


Play Along

Check out this page Empty Promises which contains a play along video and sheet music with melody, chords and lyrics.

"The world doesn't need any more empty promises"

Empty Promises Copyright (c) Steve Nielson (Musical Juice) All Rights Reserved