Pints and Promises

[intro]
One more round, don't let the glass sit empty
Here's to you and here's to getting gone

[verse]
You stacked your life in two suitcases by the door,
Your Ma's old photos and the key you won't need anymore.
The 6am flight out of Manchester in the rain,
And we swore we'd do this sober — well, we lied again.

[chorus]
So raise your pint, you beautiful disaster,
Cross the water, go on, go get after.
If the world don't treat you right, come crawling back —
Till then, drink up, you're on the right track.
Pints and promises, they're all we've got,
Take the first, leave the rest to rot.

[verse]
Paul gave you his jacket 'cause you always lose your own,
And Sarah cried, and you laughed at her on the phone.
You said "it's only six hours on a plane,"
Like distance is a thing you can explain.

[chorus]
So raise your pint, you beautiful disaster,
Cross the water, go on, go get after.
If the world don't treat you right, come crawling back —
Till then, drink up, you're on the right track.
Pints and promises, they're all we've got,
Take the first, leave the rest to rot.

[bridge]
And when Christmas comes and the tree's gone thin,
And nobody knows how you take your gin —
Remember who you were when you were poor and young,
The songs we butchered with our lungs.

[chorus]
So raise your pint, you beautiful disaster,
Cross the water, go on, go get after.
If the world don't treat you right, come crawling back —
Till then, drink up, you're on the right track.
Pints and promises, they're all we've got,
Take the first, leave the rest to rot.

[outro]
Last train's gone, the barman's counting glasses,
You know where the spare key hides in the grasses.
Go on, get gone — we'll leave the light on.