Promises

E   
Cheap perfume and painted faces, __    
   
fallen angles fill the places    
             A                                             E   
Where I go when my troubles pull me down   
   
All the lies I know they'll tell me, __    
   
and the time that they will sell me    
       F#                                B    
For a while I'll be the biggest man in town   
               E                   
Back at home in bed she's crying, __    
   
for her love for me is dying   
        A                                                     E      
But she'll pray I make it safely through the night   
                 B7                                                       
When the mornin' sun starts showing, ___   
          A   
to her bedside I'll be going   
                  E                     B7                      E     
And she'll hold me while I face the morning light _____   
                            E   
* And I'll make promises ___    
   
promises to change    
                        G#   
I'll make her promises swear I'll rearrange    
                       A                                              
And I'll start giving all the love she needs    
          B7                     A  B   
if only she will stay____   
            E   
Once again she'll reasure me and    
   
I believe her love will cure me   
              A                                      E   
And I'll fall asleep with tears on my face   
   
Lord I know she's just a woman    
   
and her love can't last forever   
             F#                                       
And someday soon I know she'll    
B                      B7   
leave without a trace   
                       E   
For broken' promises ___    
   
will tear her dreams apart   
                    G#   
Just token promises will someday break her heart   
                  A                                                                         
And for the last time she'll hold me when I cry    
                       B7   
and while I'm sleeping   
           A      B  A/B           C                      D/C        E   
She'll quiet--ly say  ?goodbye? __________