[Verse 1]

Changed my name to "promise you", yeah

Dying inside 'cause I want you, yeah

Didn't I say I wanted to heal

Honey I'd changed before you, yeah

28 years are coming to end

The rain chased me down the gully again

Now I'm higher than anyone here

And dirt ain't nothing on me, yeah

[Interlude]

(But she's gone

But she's gone

But she's gone

But she's gone)

[Verse 2]

But-but-but baby I swear it, I wanted to call

But on my way around I happened to fall

She's a MUA at Carnegie Hall

In her vanity mirror, we're losing it all

Well, we shacked up swift abandonment way

Catchin' sweet rain inside a beret

In it I'm reflecting all of the day

And I will fade in the night, yeah

[Chorus]

Will you apologise

For the remainder of your life?

Do you accept the charges?

I promise you, I'll promise to, yeah

[Verse 3]

Well, now she curls up with his favourite son

He's the ugliest man in heaven for one

As long as there's nobody fooling me there

Then dirt ain't nothing on me, yeah, yeah

They threw me out like I was a wedding bouquet

Now I can't quite remember what I had to say

Till I get higher than everyone here

And I will fade in the night, yeah

[Chorus]

In the charmless morning

I promise to be gone

I almost felt the feeling

That I wanted to, I wanted to, yeah

Ah, you thought I was here

But I'm further than the sun, son

Ah, silent as the feeling

That I've promised you, I promise you, yeah

[Outro]

Well, I changed my name to "promise you", yeah (But she's gone)

It's easier than making apologies, yeah (But she's gone)

Now I'm higher than anyone here (But she's gone)

And dirt ain't nothing on me, yeah (But she's gone)