Promise - Hey Rosetta!

Ye lowlives

Laughing too much

Never close your eyes

'til the sun’s coming up

Underslept, overdreamt

My whole life

Trying to speak

But silent

With so much beneath it

That thick wind under the surface

You don’t know me, or my purpose

Or my promise, I got promise

Your hands and feet

For all of their grief

Turned out to be

Only your elbows and knees

You go farther, and you’re just starting to see

And you see that red pen

Hover in judgement

And that census

Get those numbers away from us

'cause honest, we got promise

I’m waking up

Pull me from my sheets in the dark

As if in a dream, lifting off

Let me feel it shift in my blood

Let me feel like I’m rising up

Out of all the ashes and dust

Out of all the past — that’s done

I don’t need what’s long dead and gone, man, I got promise

I got promise

Yeah, we got promise