Empty Spaces

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

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

It′s gonna take a really long time

To forgive all of my failures

And fill up all these empty spaces

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 on the ward

I 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

My friend sent a video

Of his five-year-old girl in bed

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

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