Eastern Promise Writen By: Gilbert/Harrison/Morley/Saxton/Timms

Written not too long after Living With The Fear, this song only got a few outings before Headstrong split. The song was inspired by the news stories of "businessmen" bringing home unwanted gifts for their Wives with the rise of HIV in the "popular" areas of some Eastern and African cities. The chorus playing on the "lads" colloquialism of "being on a promise". Because of when it was written no recordings of it exist.

You want it, you need it
You got an addiction you gotta feed it
Praying on your knees to the Lord above
You gotta get some meaningless love

In the backstreets of Saigon
You pay the price and you get it on
Favourite colours, favourite breeds
You pay the price and you sow your seeds
In the land of the setting sun
They sell of virtue by the tonne
If you want me to be honest
Tonight your on an Eastern Promise

You can't see it, but believe it You're spreading the plague and you can't deceive it She's lying on her back and your playing the game But the prize ain't worth it all the same In the backstreets of Saigon You pay the price and you get it on Favourite colours, favourite breeds You pay the price and you sow your seeds In the land of the setting sun They sell of virtue by the tonne If you want me to be honest Tonight your on an Eastern Promise You deny it, but you buy it It comes with the price so you have to try it Never did believe it would happen to you Nightmare stories they're all true In the backstreets of Saigon You pay the price and you get it on Favourite colours, favourite breeds You pay the price and you sow your seeds In the land of the setting sun They sell of virtue by the tonne If you want me to be honest Tonight your on an Eastern Promise Land of Eastern Promise Land of Eastern Promise If you want me to be honest You're in the land of Eastern Promise In the alleys where the poor lie bleeding Dying for their life Remember well you take part of them Home to meet the wife

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