Empty Nest Lyrics

Lyric discussion by afrolady213 

Cover art for Empty Nest lyrics by Wild Beasts

I think it's about someone leaving something behind that seems to be great, maybe a relationship, maybe a child leaving home, I suppose it could be anything.

There's the anxiety about what will happen to that person and "where they will go". Then at the end it's kind of like acceptance; the people left "suffer alone" and they wait for their "call", but ultimately they acknowledge that "these walls don't fall", so the person will always have something to come back to and without them it will survive.

That's what it sounds like to me anyway. This is one of my favourites, I love Tom Flemming's voice.