Golden Promises-Peter Hammill

[ti:Golden Promises] [ar:Peter Hammill] [al:The Storm (Before The Calm)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Golden Promises - Peter Hammill [00:12.69]Besieged in the battlements of babylon [00:15.95] [00:17.59]Still looking for a hat peg you can hang your [00:21.25]Head upon [00:22.03] [00:23.32]Now you've found a place you think is avalon [00:26.65] [00:28.81]You can talk to anyone here [00:31.07] [00:32.62]You can throw your arms around your nearest neighbour [00:36.75] [00:37.92]And the smiling ones'll tell you that you've saved her [00:41.94]That she's saved you [00:43.36]They offer the golden promises [00:45.71] [00:48.57]The instantly divine [00:50.40] [00:53.30]You swallow the golden promises [00:55.67] [00:58.83]Hook sinker and line [01:02.76] [01:13.12]If you choose to throw your soul around the attitude [01:16.88] [01:18.55]Reasoning and independent thought go down the tube [01:22.75]As you go slavering after every inane platitude [01:27.27] [01:28.80]How weak you find yourself here [01:31.17] [01:32.82]Do you really need to lose yourself completely [01:36.66] [01:38.18]How come you seem to rate it all so cheaply [01:41.65]It's so weak kneed [01:43.10]To go for the golden promises [01:45.38] [01:47.88]Mail order holy vows [01:50.44] [01:52.90]You go for the golden promises [01:55.31] [01:56.79]I think you really ought to know better by now [02:00.93] [02:02.26]So I do my best and I do my nut [02:07.28]I try to explain all these angles [02:11.66]But you turn away [02:13.58] [02:15.34]Oh now you're looking in the white of my eyes [02:17.87] [02:19.26]And you know what I'm going to say [02:20.76] [02:22.35]Don't go for the golden promises [02:24.91] [02:27.71]Don't go for the easy way [02:29.51] [02:32.91]It's right here on the doorstep [02:35.15] [02:38.31]Fool's gold [02:39.31] [02:40.03]Don't throw your life [02:41.76] [02:42.75]Away