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Empty's Theme Park Lyrics
used to steal real estate signs, cookie keep them in her basement
used to stay up all night, chemistry set a replacement
yeah, i've seen that door
and i've walked through it both ways before
i live just around here, i sleep just around here
and i wake up every day
where my feet hit the floor in exactly the same place
tell me will i love?
and tell me will it be enough?
or tell me will i stay
with my feet in exactly the same place
hold me like you'd never let me go
bear it like you'd never let it show
shine a light and so never let me go
well i grew up just around here, and i took a few just around here
and i'd wake up every day
with poison in my head behind exactly the same face
tell me will i dream?
and tell me will it be serene?
or tell me will i stay
with my feet in exactly the same place?
hold me like you'd never let me go
bear it like you'd never let it show
shine a light and so never let me go
never let me go
used to stay up all night, chemistry set a replacement
yeah, i've seen that door
and i've walked through it both ways before
and i wake up every day
where my feet hit the floor in exactly the same place
and tell me will it be enough?
or tell me will i stay
with my feet in exactly the same place
bear it like you'd never let it show
shine a light and so never let me go
and i'd wake up every day
with poison in my head behind exactly the same face
and tell me will it be serene?
or tell me will i stay
with my feet in exactly the same place?
bear it like you'd never let it show
shine a light and so never let me go
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one of my favourites off his new album. last bit of the song is so powerful wonder who he is talking to
Awesome song.
This song is about undergoing change and being unsure of yourself. He wants to know if thing will get better or if his feet will stay in exactly the same place.
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The brilliance of this man with his lyrics is pretty much only superseded by his ability to both open and close an album. The lyrics - they are what they are. We'll never really know what he was thinking about while writing / singing - but we don't need to. He's telling a story, and that story is about how he makes you feel. I don't interpret this song as literally as about a homeless person... But likewise, I feel, I hear, I live his state of mind every time I hear this song.
But that ending. This man knows how to put punctuation at the end of an album. "House of Smoke and Mirrors" at the end of Avalanche was a "…"; to be honest, I thought that was going to prove to be his last album. I thought he was going to quit, or Quit. But "Empty's Theme Park" ends with a definitive "."
Whatever this was, whatever he felt, whatever part of his life this song was about...
... he left it behind on that last note.