In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
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It's not pointless, if you actually listen to the first songs and keep your mind open it relates within them.
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Pretty pointless song just like Foreword off of Meteora. Nice war sounds though.
Ok, I've always been a fan of Linkin Park and I think the new album is great, but Empty Spaces has no business being listed as a complete track.
Seriously though...18 SECONDS of background noise and they consider that a full track? Would it have been so hard to just put this on the same track as When They Come For Me?
It's simply false advertising to say your album has 15 songs when it really only has 9. The other 6 tracks (40% of the album, almost half of it) consist of quotes/short instrumentals/background noise, and some of them actually work well. Jornada Del Muerto is strange and Fallout is a bit repetitive, but The Requiem, The Radiance and Wisdom, Justice and Love are all great additions that give the following songs much more depth and sophistication. HOWEVER, empty spaces is literally just 18 seconds of noise, and I don't care how good those 18 seconds may be, 18 seconds is simply does not warrant its own track.
If you've listened to all Linkin Park albums, you'd notice that this kind of stuff is in a lot of their albums. From what I think, it's a battlefield, you can hear the explosions and people shouting and what not. I think that's the most reasonable thing it's about since the album is about war and what's this world is at the moment.
those 6 tracks are 40% of album??<br /> afaik Those 6 songs add up to 7 min..<br /> (7/48)*100=14.5%<br /> it's simple arithmetic.
IMHO I think Empty Spaces refers to the losses during war and perhaps even because of the atom bomb, since the songs before empty spaces refer to that.<br /> <br /> The people that die during a war leave empty spaces, giving title to the song which is filled with battlefield sounds.
Lol, touche abhinavk. Should have said 40% of the songs. That's (6/15)*100 = 40%<br /> <br /> Math aside, I still don't think Empty Spaces should be its own track.