"Promised You a Miracle" is a 1982 song by Scottish band Simple Minds and was released as the first single from their fifth studio album New Gold Dream (81–82–83–84).

The song triggered a prolonged period of commercial success for the band, during which they yielded 21 original UK hit singles in a row, up to and including 1998's "Glitterball" from the album Neapolis.

[11][12] The music video, directed by Steve Barron,[13] features the band members playing amidst colour television imagery, interspersed with an uncredited female model passing through an airport X-ray and sunbathing.

"Promised You a Miracle" is a dance track which is driven by a combination of "deep electronic beats"[14] from the keyboards of Mick MacNeil and a "deft hook line and riff"[5] courtesy of Charlie Burchill's guitar play.

As the band at that point had not recorded any other new material, the instrumental track "Theme for Great Cities" was lifted from their 1981 album Sister Feelings Call as the b-side of the single.