LITTLE PROMISES

(M. Alchin – 1986 - © Reasonable Songs)

All your underhand behaviour excused without a thought

Only goes to aggravate her when there’s second thoughts

But I see a peaceful affair that both can pretend in
and I know the depth of despair this doesn’t need to end in

So we make our little promises that we know we’ll never keep

And we speak of how this one will last

Because the love runs deep

Little promises are easier to make

When I promise me to you I start to shake

Little promises are easy

Little promises are easy

Little promises are easier to break

Stranger truth than fiction makes this easier to bear

When we carry on together with silence in the air

We go on pretending to care while paying scant attention

All the time descending the stair to the usual dissention

And we make more little promises that we know we’ll never keep

And we still say how this one will last

Because the love runs deep

Little promises are easier to make

When I promise me to you I start to shake

Little promises are easy

Little promises are easy

Little promises are easier to break

When there’s nothing left to say why do we keep talking away?

Instead of something to remember all we’re left is pieces of nothing at all

Still we keep on doing the same thing

Little promises are easier to make

When I promise me to you I start to shake

Little promises are easy

Little promises are easy

Little promises are easier to break