You Promised You'd Stay Here With Me

歌詞

You always wear neutral colors You are a forest of gray and brown and your bed is always empty Elizabeth was right, you keep your guard up higher than a castle wall and your hands are always buried in your pockets I know what happened on the grounds of the school where you met, when you were carrying three months of salary spent And I know how she found out- and how her father would never allow such a poor family name claim his own So I know she never showed, and how you stayed for hours (like a mariner trapped at sea) When dawn crawled into the sky you dragged your body home collapsing, at last, alone in your bed You woke after little sleep, shook the weight off your shoulders and drove yourself down to the harbor And you walked onto the pier where the wind howled and shared your grief like it was part of your body You slowly removed the diamond ring from inside your pocket and you buried it at sea