You Promised You'd Stay Here With Me-Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

[ti:You Promised You'd Stay Here With Me] [ar:Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)] [al:Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) / Malegoat] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]You Promised You'd Stay Here With Me - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) [00:03.45]You always wear neutral colors [00:07.67] [00:09.12]You are a forest of gray and brown [00:12.50] [00:15.11]And your bed is always empty [00:21.89] [00:24.24]Elizabeth was right [00:25.99] [00:28.42]You keep your guard up higher than a castle wall [00:36.42] [00:39.10]And your hands are always buried in your pockets [00:45.63] [00:51.41]I know what happened [00:56.87]On the grounds of the school where you met [01:01.09] [01:03.05]When you were carrying three months of salary spent [01:08.62] [01:15.18]And I know how she found out [01:19.50] [01:21.62]How her father would never allow [01:25.74] [01:26.66]Such a poor family name to lay claim his only daughter [01:36.59] [01:38.87]So I know she never showed [01:42.36] [01:45.03]And how you stayed for hours [01:48.80] [01:50.73]Like a mariner trapped at sea [01:55.34] [02:00.24]When dawn reclaimed the sky [02:04.10] [02:06.25]You dragged your body home [02:09.65] [02:12.29]Collapsing at last alone in your bed [02:19.43] [02:27.36]You woke after little sleep [02:30.46] [02:32.60]Shook the weight off your shoulders [02:36.15] [02:39.56]And drove yourself down to the harbor [02:45.58] [02:51.25]You walked onto the pier [02:54.22] [02:56.79]Where the wind howled and shared your grief [03:00.75] [03:04.51]Like it was part of your body [03:07.27] [03:12.23]And you slowly removed the diamond ring from inside your pocket [03:23.68] [03:27.29]And you buried it at sea