its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
If you'd like to walk a while
We could waste the day
Follow me into the trees
I will lead the way
Bring some change up to the bridge
Bring some alcohol
There we'll make a final wish
Just before the fall
Promise I will be forever yours
Promise not to say another word
Never mind what's done is done
Always was a lucky one
Watch the sunrise all alone
Sitting on the tracks
Hear the train come roaring in
Never coming back
Laying quiet in the grass
Everything is still
River stones and broken bones
Scattered on the hill
Promise I will be forever yours
Promise not to say another word
Never mind what's done is done
Always was a lucky one
Promise I will be forever yours
Promise not to say another word
Here forever deep beneath the dirt
Never mind what's done is done
Always was a lucky one
We could waste the day
Follow me into the trees
I will lead the way
Bring some change up to the bridge
Bring some alcohol
There we'll make a final wish
Just before the fall
Promise I will be forever yours
Promise not to say another word
Never mind what's done is done
Always was a lucky one
Watch the sunrise all alone
Sitting on the tracks
Hear the train come roaring in
Never coming back
Laying quiet in the grass
Everything is still
River stones and broken bones
Scattered on the hill
Promise I will be forever yours
Promise not to say another word
Never mind what's done is done
Always was a lucky one
Promise I will be forever yours
Promise not to say another word
Here forever deep beneath the dirt
Never mind what's done is done
Always was a lucky one
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@Childe He said this word word \r\n"Still is probably the first song I ever wrote that comes close to any sort of storytelling. It\'s about my being a kid, going to the lake by my house on a Saturday morning and seeing all these ambulances and fire trucks because someone decided to kill himself by sitting on the train tracks. When you\'re a child, you\'re so naive, you have no idea what\'s really going on, and you start to explore and find yourself playing with pieces of the....it\'s a pretty gory story, actually, but it happened."\r\n\r\nI always so it as a love song. When he sang "Promise I will be forever yours." I have been with my bride to be for over 11 years.
@Childe He said this word word \r\n"Still is probably the first song I ever wrote that comes close to any sort of storytelling. It\'s about my being a kid, going to the lake by my house on a Saturday morning and seeing all these ambulances and fire trucks because someone decided to kill himself by sitting on the train tracks. When you\'re a child, you\'re so naive, you have no idea what\'s really going on, and you start to explore and find yourself playing with pieces of the....it\'s a pretty gory story, actually, but it happened."\r\n\r\nI always so it as a love song. When he sang "Promise I will be forever yours." I have been with my bride to be for over 11 years.
@Childe He said this word word \r\n"Still is probably the first song I ever wrote that comes close to any sort of storytelling. It\'s about my being a kid, going to the lake by my house on a Saturday morning and seeing all these ambulances and fire trucks because someone decided to kill himself by sitting on the train tracks. When you\'re a child, you\'re so naive, you have no idea what\'s really going on, and you start to explore and find yourself playing with pieces of the....it\'s a pretty gory story, actually, but it happened."\r\n\r\nI always so it as a love song. When he sang "Promise I will be forever yours." I have been with my bride to be for over 11 years.