Promises
The World Needs a Hero
2001
Duration: 4:28
Track number: 6
Writers
Lyrics by: Dave Mustaine
Music by: Dave Mustaine
Theme
A power ballad centered on a **forbidden and doomed romance** or relationship, likely interracial or interfaith. The narrator makes fervent **'promises'** to reunite with their love in the afterlife, as their current community or environment ('town much like a prison cell') makes their union impossible.
Lyrics
Two hearts that shouldn't
Talk to each other become close
In a town much like a prison cell
People speak our names
On the street in hushed tones
Oh the stories they'd tell
If anyone would listen, anyone would listen
You come from a town where
People don't bother saying hello
Unless somebody's born or dies
And I come from a place where they
Drag your hopes through the mud
Because their own dreams are all dying
And when we walk down the street
The wind sings our name in rebel songs
The sounds of the night should make us anxious
But it's much to late when the fear is gone
I will meet you in the **Next Life**, I **promise** you
Where we can be together, I **promise** you
I will wait till then in Heaven, I **promise** you
I **promise**, I **promise**
There's so many fighting
To get past the Pearly Gates
But nobody ever wants to die or get saved
Their intentions aren't that good
And I can smell the asphalt
That's their personal road to hell being paved
And when we walk down the street
The wind sings our name in rebel songs
But it's much to late when the fear is gone
I will meet you in the **next life**, I **promise** you
Where we can be together, I **promise** you
I will wait till then in Heaven, I **promise** you
I **promise**, I **promise**
I will meet you in the **next life**, I **promise** you
Where we can be together, I **promise** you
I will wait till then in Heaven, I **promise** you
I **promise**, I **promise**
