Promises (Clean) - Bastille/Riz Ahmed

Lyrics by：Riz Ahmed

Composed by：Riz Ahmed

Look

Baby I can't promise you nuttin'

I mean the future could be

All we need or plugs in a dustbin

I see the clouds all brewing

Guess we're due for a flooding

The cold blue light blinds

But my ark is your loving

AI in the sky humming

The world's burning but it

Asleep stomach to stomach is all

I need to be honest

Not 'cause I'm evil or ostrich

But cah my people turned prophets

Already walking on water while

The sea level's frothing

Yeah it's heavy tread steady

But this ain't any old romance

Babe you were my best lay and

I never planned to hold hands

Till the whole of human history

Aligned so we could slow dance

And those that came before us

Suffered more so is it so bad

They carried us as hope inside

Their ovaries and gonads

So sunburned or drowned or deleted

It's the end of we but maybe

We're the bitter seeds that grow into a lemon tree

Yeah the past and the future

Lives inside the present's energy

So show a little tenderness

Now and love flows endlessly

Time is on a loop like the sun

That's its destiny

So the truth is how you lie here next

To me is how we'll forever be