Why Stay?/A Promise

Why stay? Why stay?

So steadfast and stolid

And stoic and solid

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 somehow something died

On the way

So 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?

We'd 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, we'll 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, should I stay?)

The two stay together the way that they stay

For year after year, for love or from fear (Oh)

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 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 lost

That boy is long lost to me now

So lost

And the man has forgotten his reasons (Forgotten his reasons)

But the man still remembers his vow (Now)

A promise, a man says forever

A man says I'll never regret or let you

The promise I made to stay and I stayed true

Knowing one day we'd 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