Hand on Heart

Album: Empire (1990)
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  • All eyes were staring
    You floated through the room
    Armed with your razor smile Cutting to the bone
    My voice fell useless
    You flashed a quick "hello"
    Feeling the fool,
    Could you tell it showed?

    But that was "sometime ago"
    A memory vague and fading slow,
    Of somewhere I'd been

    Hand on heart
    A promise, a word and a voice
    Hand on heart
    A rhythm of hope and choice, will keep us together

    I don't know if I,
    Can reach that high
    It's a long way to fall
    Hauntingly holding
    My fate with a gaze
    Like a child, mesmerized
    By the candle's flame
    Oh what lies behind those eyes
    I could only guess
    A certain way you stood apart from the rest

    Now where is "sometime ago?"
    When everything moved in slo-motion
    Caught by my watering eye

    Hand on heart
    A promise, a word and a voice
    Hand on heart
    A rhythm of hope and a vision of choice
    Hand on heart
    Promising, I'll never go
    Hand on heart
    For reasons you'll never know

    Together through thick and thin
    Lose or win, I'll be there for you
    Strange how the mind changes
    Time and time again
    Things once important, now pale in comparison

    Hand on heart
    A promise, a word and a voice
    Hand on heart
    A rhythm of hope and a vision of choice
    Hand on heart
    Promising, I'll never go
    Hand on heart
    For reasons you'll never know

    I promise girl, hand on heart (hand on heart)
    (Hand on heart) Writer/s: CHRISTOPHER DEGARMO, GEOFF TATE, GEOFFERY TATE, MICHAEL WILTON
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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