Promise Not to Tell

I lay on the beach lost in the blue of the shoreline

I baked in the sun I did it for you the sky was mine

The seabreezes were blowing like the Winds of Fame

I swear I heard them talking calling out your name

Do you recall when we first met it was snowing

In that smothered town with the doors all shut and windows glowing

On the corner buttons tugging we were standing stamping our feet

We just ahead of the others we were just behind the beat

And I was saying to you

Are you stepping out with me tonight its us against the world

I won't Bogart the bottle if you don't Cagney the girls

Promise not to tell

Promise not to tell

We stood at the fire that burned in the mirror of the bottle

We drank down the dregs of wonder and terror and opened the throttle

We stole joy building stories from the stuff of pain

We earned grace burnt it in the chase and through it all remained

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Promise not to tell

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