10cc

Songwriter: Paul McCartney Graham Gouldman Eric Stewart

Producer: Gary Katz

[Verse 1]
You know I cannot always be there with you
When something crazy takes me far away
We must stick together through this madness
I've got so many things I want to say
Too many forces try to come between us
So little time to share and talk to you
If I show my hand to you in panic
Please remember what I'm going through

[Chorus]
I've loved you forever
But it seems like a day
And I want to be there with you
I didn't want it this way
Don't think I don't trust in you
I just needed to say
Don't break the promises
That we made today, oh no
Don't break the promises

[Verse 2]
Do you remember counting every moment
Before the world we knew was torn apart?
Now when I close my eyes I can be with you
But are we really dancing in the dark?
A bad connection leads us to confusion
We're all too easily misunderstood
Oh we've been together through these nightmares
And now we've got a chance to make it good

[Chorus]
I've loved you forever
But it seems like a day
And I want to be there with you
I didn't want it this way
Don't think I don't trust in you
I just wanted to say
Oh don't break the promises
That we made today, oh
Don't break the promises
That we made today

[Bridge]
Don't you break the promises
(Don't break the promises, promises)
If you do you'll be breaking my heart
(Don't break the promises that you made)
Oh don't forget the things we said
(Promises, promises)
At the start, oh no

[Chorus]
I've loved you forever
But it seems like a day
And I want to be there with you
I didn't want it this way
Don't think I don't trust in you
I just wanted to say
Oh don't break the promises
That we made today, oh no
Don't break the promises
That we made today
Oh don't break the promises
That we made today

10cc are an English art rock band who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s. The band initially consisted of four musicians—Graham Gouldman, Eric Stewart, Kevin Godley, and Lol Creme—who had written and recorded together for some three years, before assuming the “10cc” name in 1972.

The name origin is described by Jonathan King, the person who signed them for their first contract:

I had to give them a name … because I’d signed the record, and I went to sleep that night and had this dream that a band of mine on my label made number one on the album and singles charts simultaneously in America, and the band was 10cc. So I gave them that name the next morning. Everybody then decided that this was apparently meant to be the amount of an average male ejaculation. Which was absolutely far from the truth … There’s a lot of apocryphal stories about names, and unfortunately, most of them are much more amusing than the ugly reality, which in this case is that the name came to me in a dream …

From the album

… Meanwhile (1992)

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