Empty Spaces

[Verse 1]

There's something here in the water

Hear all the kooks outside

The end-of-the-line, forgotten folk

Screaming out on a desperate night

There's something dark about this hotel

It just don't feel right

It's got a history that I read about

Left my stomach in a knot all night

[Verse 2]

I caught a glimpse of the sadness

So shocked it was my resting face

I know it was I who pulled the trigger

But I'm confused and out of place

It's so weird that we're strangers

When you were all I had

I've been trying to fill this void in me

Since I was a young lad

[Chorus]

It's gonna take a really long time

To forgive all of my failures

And fill up all these empty spaces

[Verse 3]

I had a call with my mother

I've barely called her at all

I can hear all the beeps of the machinery

Nurses chattering down the ward

I've got a stutter and a shaky hand

And a fat lump in my throat

But I was taught real good how to push it down

So far down it's like a stomach bug

[Verse 4]

My friend sent a video

Of his five-year-old girl, in bits

Terrified she'd be alone someday

And I just fell to pieces

He keeps kicking the can of mortality down the line

There's a reason why Heaven was made up

She'll worry her little heart out

Just like the rest of us

[Chorus]

It's gonna take a really long time

To forgive all of my failures

And fill up all these empty spaces

It'll take a really long time to forgive all of my failures

And fill up all these empty spaces

Hmm, hmm, hmm, hmm