Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song Golden Promises , by - Peter Hammill. Song from the album The Storm (Before The Calm), in the genre ПопRelease date: 31.12.1992
Record label: Virgin
Song language: English
Golden Promises |
| Besieged in the battlements of Babylon |
| Still looking for a hat-peg you can hang your head upon — |
| Now you’ve found a place you think is Avalon: |
| You can talk to anyone here |
| You can throw your arms around your nearest neighbour |
| And the smiling ones’ll tell you that you’ve saved her |
| That she’s saved you… |
| They offer the golden promises |
| The instantly divine; |
| You swallow the golden promises |
| Hook, sinker and line |
| If you choose to throw your soul around the attitude |
| Reasoning and independent thought go down the tube |
| As you go slavering after every inane platitude — |
| How weak you find yourself here |
| Do you really need to lose yourself completely? |
| How come you seem to rate it all so cheaply? |
| It’s so weak-kneed |
| To go for the golden promises |
| Mail-order holy vows; |
| You go for the golden promises — |
| I think you really ought to know better by now |
| So I do my best and I do my nut |
| I try to explain all these angles |
| But you turn away |
| Oh, now you’re looking in the white of my eyes |
| And you know what I’m going to say: |
| Don’t go for the golden promises |
| Don’t go for the easy way… |
| It’s right here on the doorstep: |
| Fool’s gold — don’t throw your life away |