Written By: Rod McKuen
Arranged By: Don Costa
From the Album: The Complete Reprise Studio Recordings
Label: Reprise Records
Recorded: March 21, 1969
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(music intro)
(Speaks)
I sometimes wonder why people
make promises they never intend to keep.
Not in big things, like love or
elections, but in the things that count -
The newspaper boy who says he
will save an extra paper, and doesn't.
The laundry that tells you your
suit will be ready on Thursday and it isn't.
Love, well yes, but like
everything else, we go from day to day,
We move from promise to promise.
I've had a good many promises
now, so I can wait for the harvest.
And some of them, they come
about.
(music to the end)