Why stay

Why stay

So steadfast and stolid and stoic and sold

For day after every day

Why stay

Why stay

Why not simply give in and get on with living
Cause everyone knows you tried
But somewhere something died on the way

Tell me why you stay
Why stay
Why stay
Enduring and coping and hurting and hoping
For day after fucking day
Why stay
Why stay
Why not simply end it
All comprehend it
And most of the world would say
He's better off that way to be free

And maybe so is she

A promise
A boy says forever

A boy says
Whatever may come well come through
And who can know how when all I know now
To be true is this promise that I make to you

A question
A boy wonders whether
A boy wonders
The two stay together
The way that they stay
For year after year
For love or foe fear
Either way

That's the promise
That I made that day
Here's what I say
To the girl who was burning so brightly
Like the light from the orion above
And still I will search for her nightly
If you see her please send her my love
And the boy was a boy for all seasons
The boy is long
The boy is long-lost to me now
So lost
The man has forgotten his reasons
But the man still remembers his vow

A promise
A man say forever

A man says I'll never regret or let you
The promise I made to stay
And I stayed true

Knowing one day wed remember that joy
You'd remember that girl
I'd remember that boy
Til we do the promise I made
I'll make it brand new

The promise that I made to you