Changed my name to "promise you", yeah Dying inside 'cause I want to, yeah Didn't I say I wanted to, yeah? Honey, I'd changed before you, yeah Twenty-eight 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 B-b-b, baby, I swear it, I wanted to call But on my way round, 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 Catch the sweet rain inside a beret I'm in it, I'm reflecting all of the day And I will fade in the night, yeah Will you apologise For the remainder of your life? Do you accept the charges? I promise you I'll promise to, yeah 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 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 am farther than the sun, the sun Ah, silent as the feeling That I've promised you, I promise you, yeah Well, I changed my name to "promise you", yeah It's easier than making apologies, yeah Now I'm higher than anyone, yeah And dirt ain't nothing on me, yeah