That glorious day We ran outside Cuz the two days before It had rained lakes Our mothers asked us not to be long We never kept our promises We knew the curves like the back of our hands Of the women we kept frozen in a photograph Our mother asked us please not to do wrong We never kept our promises Despite the dull heat We managed to grow Our legs were wild horses From blood until bone Our mother asked us to never grow old We never kept our promises We never kept them We never dared I could've sworn there was more to it all I could've sworn it took a little longer than this In the blink of an eye it was over and gone I could've sworn I had promised her this That glorious day We ran behind you The screams of your mother were dripping down the driveway When your brother fell And his skin gave to bone You became a man when you carried him home Carried him home You carried us home That summer we became a man Our mothers asked us not to be long We never kept our promises