Promise Me  (Joe Pinson, ASCAP) CHORUS:  Promise me you'll never, ever promise me again. I don't want to be your lover, if I can't be your friend. When you say this and then do that, there's no way we can win. Promise me you'll never, ever promise me again. 1.  You promised that you'd stay in shape, forever trim and lean.  Then old King Cable crowned you the couch potato queen. You promised that you'd get a job to help me pay the bills.  Then you found out that going to work is - not a bowl of thrills. REPEAT CHORUS 2.  You promised that you'd be okay, if I went out with the boys.  When I came home at three a.m., I've never heard such noise. You promised that you'd learn to cook to kindle my desire.  That meal of dreams went up in smoke, when you set the house on fire. REPEAT CHORUS