No Promises (album)

No Promises is the second album by the Italian-French singer and model Carla Bruni. It was released in January 2007. Bruni's début album, Quelqu'un m'a dit, was sung in French; this album, however, is sung in English.

All tracks on the album are adapted by Bruni from poems by deceased authors.

[edit] Track listing

#	Title	Lyrics	Music
1.	"Those Dancing Days Are Gone"	W. B. Yeats	Bruni
2.	"Before the World Was Made"	W. B. Yeats	Bruni
3.	"Lady Weeping at the Crossroads"	W. H. Auden	Bruni
4.	"I Felt My Life With Both My Hands"	Emily Dickinson	Bruni
5.	"Promises Like Piecrust"	Christina Rossetti	Bruni
6.	"Autumn"	Walter de la Mare	Bruni
7.	"If You Were Coming in the Fall"	Emily Dickinson	Bruni
8.	"I Went to Heaven"	Emily Dickinson	Bruni
9.	"Afternoon"	Dorothy Parker	Bruni
10.	"Ballad at Thirty Five"	Dorothy Parker	Bruni
11.	"At Last the Secret Is Out"	W. H. Auden	Bruni
12.	"Those Dancing Days Are Gone (alternate version)"*	W. B. Yeats	Bruni

* Featuring Lou Reed. Only available on iTunes and through Opendisc.

[edit] Charts

Chart	Peak
Austria Album Chart	11^[1]
Belgium Album Chart	2^[2]
France Album Chart	1^[3]
Germany Album Chart	2^[4]
Irish Albums Chart	72^[5]
Italian Album Chart	11^[6]
Portugal Album Chart	6^[7]
Sweden Album Chart	55^[8]
Swiss Album Chart	1^[9]
UK Album Chart	65^[10]