Promised

The ghostly possibilities
 You could conjure with your hands
 The rest of us could tell you were inspired
 Though sometimes it seemed a little planned
 I loved to watch you sleeping in the morning light
 Before you set your face
 Before the others, even me, before we crowded in
 And you were free a little from time and space
 But you promised me, you promised me
 That you wouldn't run and hide
 And in the evenings sometimes
 When I'm sad and half asleep
 I wonder if you should have tried
 Gonna go and have a sit-down
 With the sit-down types
 When I crawl out of my bed
 When I'm done lying to all the liars
 Gonna go and lie back down
 Put the cardboard crown back on my head
 If I close my eyes while walking
 Will you come and take my hand?
 I remember how it feels
 I could stand so very still
 Every crowded corner
 Crossing every avenue
 There's a chance, there's a chance, there's a chance
 But you promised me, you promised me
 That you wouldn't run and hide
 And in the evenings sometimes
 When I'm sad and half asleep
 I wonder if you should have tried
 But you promised me, you promised me
 That you wouldn't run and hide
 But in the mornings
 When I'm cold and wish I was asleep
 I wonder if you weren't right
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 I know that, for you the world was painful like a fire
 I'm waiting, not, with patience, nor desire
 But soft despair, pale and cold
 And knowing that I knew you were a liar
 But you promised me, you promised me
 That you wouldn't run and hide
 And in the evenings sometimes
 When I'm sad and half asleep
 I wonder if you should have tried
 But you promised me, you promised me
 That you wouldn't run and hide
 But in the mornings
 When I'm cold and wish I was asleep
 I wonder if you weren't right
 Whatever words, whatever words I thought you promised me
 Let me cast them from my mind
 I can stand before the stillness of reality
 Just gotta give it time
 Gotta give it time
 Gotta give it time