Bastille, Riz Ahmed - Promises lyrics
[Bastille, Riz Ahmed - Promises lyrics]
Look baby, I can't promise you nothin'
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 floodin'
The cold blue light blinds
But my ark is your lovin'
AI in the sky hummin'
The world's burning, but fuck 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 just 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 sunburnt 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 it's destiny
So the truth is how you lie here next
To me is how we'll forever be
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 floodin'
The cold blue light blinds
But my ark is your lovin'
AI in the sky hummin'
The world's burning, but fuck 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 just 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 sunburnt 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 it's destiny
So the truth is how you lie here next
To me is how we'll forever be