Empty souls will leave their homes
To find a place where they're alone
Rattling memories and hollow bones
Leaves a taste so bitter and cold

For empty souls will stand alone
Shivering like black-eyed dogs
Waiting to be taken home
Where that is they only know

Exposed to a truth we don't know
Collapsing like the twin towers
Falling down like April showers
Colossal endless like a marathon

God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls

For empty souls they stand alone
Shivering like black-eyed dogs
Waiting to be taken home
Where that is they only know

Exposed to a truth we don't know
Collapsing like the twin towers
Falling down like April showers
Colossal endless like a marathon

God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls

Colossal endless like a marathon
God knows what makes the comparison
God knows what makes the comparison
For the empty souls, for the empty souls.


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    General Comment

    This song is brilliant! It has this U2 - New Year's Day vibe going on with the keyboards and lyrical contetnt.

    Too bad they had to edit the single cuz of the line "collapsing like the twin towers". Are people still that sensitive?

    madchesteron December 02, 2004   Link
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    forever delayed - on a jo whiley interview on the forever delayed greatest hits album they said they would like to make a "sparse and wintery album". enter lifeblood...did they do it well? oh yes, I thought the same thing as you, very wintery - its like the manics have an album for every season now:)

    earthwormjim2001on August 26, 2005   Link
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    This is probably my favourite song off the phenomenal Lifeblood album, the keyboard melody really makes the song. I haven't listened to the single version just yet, but it is a real shame if they have left that lyric out. After all, that's what really has made the manics. No other band could get away with lyrics comparing to the collapsing of the world trade centre, but the manics are beyond that. Rather than just a sick make up of lyrics, Wire being the genius that he is uses this comparison in a very relevant context, and i really do like this song. Those that haven't bought the lifeblood album yet really should, even just for this song.

    matt675on December 03, 2004   Link
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    The Lifeblood album is by far their best since Everything Must Go. I really like this song but i think i disagree with you on the twin towers line, i'm not offended by it or anything, but i feel like the Manics are trying too hard to be the Manics... if that makes sense... i.e they want to be the old Manics were they shocked people through their lyrics, i might be wrong though. It's the same with The Love Of Richard Nixon, perhaps trying to hard to be that band that politcally shocked people. But don't get me wrong, the Manics are still my favourite band, before someone tells me to piss off. But on a more general thing, is it just me or is Lifeblood a very wintery album? Like i can imagine myself walking through a blizzard or something. Like the sparce piano on this song, the elegance of Live to fall Asleep, The cold driving guitars on To Repel Ghosts, The broken lyrics of A Song For Departure, The wishful lyrics of Solitude Sometimes Is, the funky bassline on Always/never... ok maybe i've went too far, but i think it's something to think about.

    forever delayedon December 06, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    i love this song - it's on the radio now...

    frozen_in_fireon December 20, 2004   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    think lifeblood has been verry underated and should be praised a lot more. best song on the album

    robc3on October 04, 2005   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    This, along with The Love of Richard Nixon is my favourite song from Lifeblood I also agree that it is a pretty underrated album, but I guess maybe some people just couldn't connect with it. It's pretty different, if that makes sense.

    RausRausFilaFilaon January 02, 2008   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    JDB does such a brilliant vocal performance on this track :) His voice is so underrated!

    taviangoon June 22, 2010   Link
  • 0
    Song Meaning

    The song is about death and coming to terms with it.

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    Jinson January 19, 2011   Link
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    Colossal endless like a marathon

    • Grief
    thedraizetrainon September 16, 2011   Link

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