Empty Promises Lyrics

You keep filling my

Filling my head

With empty promises

And to be honest it's

No good for me

I keep writing songs but you just take away the meaning

Like even if you believed em, somehow feels like I can't seem to

Cause we get less than a billion words

Til we're gone

And girl it's silly but

I'm just not really

Involved

No not

Emotionally

Cause you made me so damn insensitive

I was hoping that we

Could just move past this phase and end with

A promise you'll keep

Like I do

But I can't

Cause I don't

Understand

Why you

Hold out your hands

Like you'll catch me

When you just let me fall

And I go all in

But that's me

Cause I just trust you

Even though I know

That you hurt me

It serves me

Right

Cause I keep opening my arms

And I keep holding down my guard

For you to shoot me in the heart

You backstabber

And now you tell me that it doesn't matter

What happened yesterday

We'll make our way up the social ladder

Is that what this is all about

Why you've been running off your mouth

Telling me to smile

How it's contagious when I'm down

How

You keep filling my

Filling my head

With empty promises

And to be honest it's

No good for me

I've been telling my

Telling myself

That empty promises

Can't be this obvious

No, I won't believe

You tell me that you're gonna start treating me better

When I get a letter in the mail saying I made it, I'll see heaven

And you say that everything's goin be the way it is on television

That just seems like tunnel vision

Tell me why I ever listened

I can almost taste it

Our future looks so amazing

On paper

But the second we start having babies

You're goin try to name em

And raise em to be exactly like you are

But I don't want a son or daughter who's first instinct/impulse is to harm

If they don't get their way

They'll just try manipulation

But I wanna teach em patience

I've been waiting like you'll change but

Right now I can't see it happening babe

I know we laugh and it ain't

Always that bad but I can't

Be in love with a nature I hate

Like a character trait

That I'm swearing I'll break

But I'm tearing the page

And the ink just won't fade

It's forever ingrained

In your mind

And I'd like to think, hey,

Probably so am I

But I know we're surrounded by lies

And deep down you know right

From the wrong and you'll try

When I'm gone

But I can't anymore

When can I see some heaven, so I can move on

Cause it feels like I'm dead

I'm a mess

But you just keep

Messing with my head

You keep filling my

Filling my head

With empty promises

And to be honest it's

No good for me

I've been telling my

Telling myself

That empty promises

Can't be this obvious

No, I won't believe

The words you say

Are like hand grenades

Disguised to blow up in my face

You play the game

Like it's bad charades

You lead me on with something fake

You keep filling my

Filling my head

With empty promises

And to be honest it

Not meant to be