Promise me no promises   So will I not promise you   Keep we both our liberties   Never false and never true   Let us hold the die uncast   Free to come as free to go   For I cannot know your past   And of mine what can you know ?      You, so warm, may once have been   Warmer towards another one   I, so cold, may once have seen   Sunlight, once have felt the sun   Who shall show us if it was   Thus indeed in time of old ?   Fades the image from the glass   And the fortune is not told      If you promised, you might grieve   For lost liberty again   If I promised, I believe   I should fret to break the chain   Let us be the friends we were   Nothing more but nothing less   Many thrive on frugal fare   Who would perish of excess      Promise me no promises   So will I not promise you   Keep we both our liberties   Never false and never true   Let us hold the die uncast   Free to come as free to go   For I cannot know your past   And of mine what can you know ?      If you promised, you might grieve   For lost liberty again   If I promised, I believe   I should fret to break the chain   Let us be the friends we were,   Nothing more but nothing less   Many thrive on frugal fare   Who would perish of excess      Promises like pie-crust   Promises like pie-crust.