Empty lyrics

she lifts her skirt up to her knees
walks through the garden rows with her bare feet laughing
I never learned to count my blessings
I choose instead to dwell in my disasters

I walk on down the hill through grass grown tall and brown
and still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain
on past the busted back of that old and rusted cadillac
that sinks into this field collecting rain

will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...

of these cutthroat busted sunsets, these cold and
damp white mornings I have grown weary
if through my cracked and dusty dime-store lips
I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me?

lay your blouse across the chair, let fall the flowers from your hair and kiss me with that country mouth so plain
outside the rain is tapping on the leaves
to me it sounds like they're applauding us the quiet love we make

will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...

well I looked my demons in the eyes, laid bare my chest, said do your best to destroy me
you see, I been to hell and back so many times
I must admit you kind of bore me

there's a lot of things that can kill a man
there's a lot ways to die, yes and some already dead that walk beside me
there's a lot of things I don't understand, why so many people lie,
it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me

will I always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged...