E.M.P.T.Y.

[Chorus] When I’m riding home at night now I get in so tired To the saws and bows that spell out E-M-P-T-Y [Verse 1] But driving west now, half past five My skin is cut, my hands are knives I could be anyone alive But I just can't fit and it's too late to quit [Verse 2] When the night air comes to me I wonder if the days I've lived through count With the world strung like a rosary Through faces moving in the crowd [Verse 3] What is the colour and the number When the happiness begins? When the knight waits in the laurels Hesitating [Verse 4] I found a clarity I'd never known In fag-end weeks before I left for school The darkness in the pylons and the smoke and creosote Canceling the faces that we knew [Verse 5] Did they forget the light inside your eyes? Those simple words, those lover's sighs? The hand is dealt, the cards are played But I just can't fit and it's too late to quit [Bridge] I saw them and I knew them all Inside a sheet of flame I saw them and I knew them all Inside a sheet of flame [Chorus] When I’m riding home at night now I get in so tired To the saws and bows that spell out E-M-P-T-Y E-M-P-T-Y E-M-P-T-Y