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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
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