Empty House

Verse 1:

Sitting on the floor alone

Hoping that you might come over

So that I can find a way

To make it up to you somehow

Waking up with growing pains

All the words I didn’t say

And the ones I wish I had

Standing right in front of the empty house I call my head

Chorus:

When we first met

You couldn’t put the pen down

Now you got other things

That you write all of your books about

And you know that I would

Give you all my love if you’d let me

Yeah the feeling’s strong

but you’re too scared to let yourself be free

Verse 2:

Hanging clothes up on the porch

There’s a t-shirt that I always wore

Ripped up from the night in Georgia

When you tore it off of me in the backseat of your Ford

Now you can’t even afford to kiss me

Chorus:

But when we first met

You couldn’t put the pen down

Now you got other things

That you write all of your books about

And you know that I would

Give you all my love if you’d let me

Yeah the feeling’s strong

but you’re too scared to let yourself be free

Bridge:

And I wonder if you think of me in bed late at night

But do I even take up space inside your head like you do in mine

And when people ask me how you’ve been I always say you’re doing fine

But the truth is I don’t really know and I haven’t for some time

Chorus:

But when we first met

I couldn’t put the pen down

Now you got other things

That I write all of my songs about

And you know that I would

Give you all my love if you’d let me

I was holding on to somebody I wanted you to be

So I hope that you found somebody who gives you need

Cause we both know that sure as hell could never have been me