Empty

She lifts her skirt up to her knees
Walks through the garden rows with her bare feet, laughing
I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

I walk on down the hill
Through grass grown tall and brown
And still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain
On past the busted back
Of that old and rusted Cadillac
That sinks into this field collecting rain

Will I always feel this way
So empty, so estranged

Of these cutthroat busted sunsets
These cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary
If through my cracked and dusty dimestore lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me

Lay your blouse across the chair
Let fall the flowers from your hair
And kiss me with that country mouth so plain
Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves
To me it sounds like they're applauding us
The quiet love we've made

Will I always feel this way
So empty, so estranged

Well I looked my demons in the eyes
Laid bare my chest said do your best destroy me
See I've been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kinda bore me

There's a lot of things that can kill a man
There's a lot of ways to die
Yes and some already dead that walk beside me
There's a lot of things I don't understand
Why so many people lie
Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me

Will I always feel this way
So empty, so estranged

Empty, Ray Lamontagne

This song really speaks to me - have you heard it already? I love the simple beauty of the first verse, the touching fourth with the rain applauding, the outrageous fifth one that somehow makes sense to me right now about letting your demons do their best and the frank last verse.

Comments

[Anne Marie]

I haven't heard this song before, but I liked the lyrics. I'll have to "you tube" it.

By the way, I'm having a problem with your blog. I leave my name, e-mail etc everytime I'm visitng your blog and check out the "Remeber personal info", but it never remembers me, and I end up writing it agian, and again. You might want to check this out in case other readers have the same problem too :-)

Wishing you a weekend with no "have to does or shoud haves"!

[Abbey]

PS I love your new header -- lovely!

[Angie]

Those are nice lyrics :-)

[caroline]

I've tried fixing the commenter info thingie without success, so sorry about having to do that again each time. Will see if I can come up with something.

Anne Marie - thanks, I did have a no shoulds weekend. ;)

Abbey - cheers, it was so time to change it.

Angie - thanks, as always. :)