Empty Promises

Personal note:

I wrote “Empty Promises” during a season where I learned something the hard way.

It’s easy to say, “If there’s anything I can do, just let me know.”
But when the moment came where they could do a simple little thing… none showed up.

And maybe that’s the lesson in it all:
it’s better to be honest about what you can give, and don't promise things,
than to make a promise you can’t or won't keep.

This song reflects that space —
between words and action.

Because in the end,
it’s not what’s said that matters most…
it’s who’s really there.

Words: Kirsten Alting & Sipke Visser, Music: Sipke Visser & John Geuzinge

 

Lying in my bed late at night

Shadows dancing in the pale moonlight

Your words they echo in my mind

Only empty promises are left behind

 

I wasn’t asking for a perfect friend

Just someone to show up now and then

Now (it’s) Your silence screamed louder than your care

Cause when i needed you, You weren’t there

 

I thought i knew you, but i don’t know anything

Words once golden, but now they only sting

And i’m left with empty promises

 

Now i see the truth so clear and bright

No more hiding in the shadow of the night

The chains you left can’t hold me anymore

I’ve traded sorrow for a better shore

 

I thought i knew you, but i don’t know anything

Words once golden but now they only sting

Oh empty promises they fade away

And i’ll stand strong untill the end of days

No more empty promises

 

I’ve been beaten battered broken down

Now you see me standing with both feeth on solid ground

 

I thought i knew you, but i don’t know anything

Words once golden but now they only sting

And i’m left with empty promises

No more empty promises!