Fiona Apple - Never Is A Promise lyrics

You'll never see the courage I know

Its colors richness won't appear within your view

I'll never glow - the way that you glow

Your presence dominates

the judgements made on you

But as the scenery grows, I see in different lights

The shades and shadows undulate in my perception

My feelings swell and stretch;

I see from greater heights

I understand what I am still

too proud to mention to you

You'll say you understand, but you don't understand

You'll say you'd never give

up seeing eye to eye

But never is a promise,

and you can't afford to lie

You'll never touch - these things that I hold

The skin of my emotions lies beneath my own

You'll never feel the heat of this soul

My fever burns me deeper than I've ever shown to you

You'll say, don't fear your dreams,

it's easier than it seems

You'll say you'd never let me fall

from hopes so high

But never is a promise

and you cant afford to lie

You'll never live the life that I live

I'll never live the life that wakes me in the night

You'll never hear the message I give

You'll say it looks as though I might give up this fight

But as the scenery grows, I see in different lights

The shades and shadows undulate in my perception

My feelings swell and stretch,

I see from greater heights

I realize what I am now

too smart to mention to you

You'll say you understand, you'll never understand

I'll say Ill never wake up

knowing how or why

I don't know what to believe in, you don't know who I am

You'll say I need appeasing when I start to cry

But never is a promise and I'll never need a lie