You Promised You'd Stay Here With Me-Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

[00:03.079]You always wear neutral colors [00:08.773]You are a forest of gray and brown [00:14.886]And your bed is always empty [00:24.029]Elizabeth was right [00:29.123]You keep your guard up higher than a castle wall [00:38.867]And your hands are always buried in your pockets [00:51.144]I know what happened on the grounds of the school where you met [01:02.795]When you were carrying three months of salary spent [01:14.942]And I know how she found out [01:21.342]And how her father would never allow [01:26.409]Such a poor family name to lay claim his only daughter [01:38.609]So I know she never showed [01:44.878]And how you stayed for hours [01:50.625]Like a mariner trapped at sea [02:00.055]When dawn reclaimed the sky [02:06.037]You dragged your body home [02:11.967]Collapsing, at last, alone in your bed [02:27.222]You woke after little sleep [02:32.499]Shook the weight off your shoulders [02:39.474]And drove yourself down to the harbor [02:51.098]You walked onto the pier [02:56.662]Where the wind howled and shared your grief [03:04.264]Like it was part of your body [03:12.075]And you slowly removed the diamond ring from inside your pocket [03:26.991]And you buried it at sea