Ray Lamontagne - Empty (song and 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 its 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.

And of these cut-throat busted sunsets,
these cold and damp white mornings
I have grown weary.
If through my cracked and dusted 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 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 the quiet love we made.
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, destroy me.
You see, I've 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 of ways to die,
listen, some already did that walked beside me.
There's a lot of things I don't understand,
why so many people lie.
Its the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me.
Will I always feel this way?
So empty, so estranged.

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[milly242]

Thumbs up if you have no fucking idea what the conspirator is and are here because Ray Lamontagne is musical God.

[toopablo]

Thumbs up if The Conspirator brought you here!

[MrSanders2053]

Why is Eminem a related video?

[jinunichy]

Such a shame I didn't know Ray Lamontagne before, but Detachment (a Such amazing movie) brought me here. :)

The Conspirator, with James Mc Avoy ?

(I didn't see the movie, but I wanted to)

[stylgeo]

Outside, the rain is tapping on the leaves,

to me it sounds like they're applauding us the the quiet love we made.

Just...poetry...

[SadieGrimsbug]

Listen to this through on full blast through headphones, the assortment of instuments layered upon eachother coming from different sides of the earpieces and with his beautiful voice.. ughh, it's just truley magical!

[19draino]

This is a great song

[Ms2blackcats]

@toopablo That's some film wasn't it

[Migas128]

"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"

amazing meaning

[TeddysaurasRex]

"Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves. To me it sounds like applauding us; the quiet love we've made."

The best line in a song. Ever. I love the beginning too. He talks about how happy and carefree she is, but he can't seem to let go of his pain from the past and join her in her joy. Looooove it. -3

[TheMyklar]

Im totally in the place now that ray is painting with this song. I feel Its a sort of an ode to surviving, and learning to live on even in the worst of times, holding onto the hope that better days are ahead, But wondering when that day will dawn. Life has a way of dragging you down, and then you think of all that had been Good But underappreciated. You swear it will be different If life gets better. Im trying so hard to spread my bedraggled wings and fly.

[Pouchy17]

@toopablo thumbs up if you actually listen to Ray LaMontagne.