Empty Shell

Where do you run when your life's on the line?

Nowhere to cling to to focus your mind

Noise in your brain

Words on the page

Bury the needle past marrow and bone

Relax into meadows neath stars dead and gone

To cope with your loss

And pay off the cost

Though my love there was no place to hide

We both know that you tried

Look down from above

Find the ones that you loved

And keep them safe

Keep them sound

Keep them deep in your heart

You read all the masters and verses of rhymе

In joining them you left us beforе your time

But time is a waste

Youth preserved on your face

They say you hung from the boughs of the pines

An empty shell for your lover to find

Though they said six months you've been dead

You're still alive in my mind

Lay down and rest

Your head on my chest

I’ll keep you safe

Keep you sound

Keep you deep in my heart