AN EMPTY SPACE
Lyrics & Music by & Copyright 2013 by Brian McNulty.

VERSE 1:
The clock keeps ticking in this empty bedroom.
I hear the echoes in my mind.
The silence beneath it feels like a cold, dark tomb.
Time seems so very undefined.

PRE-CHORUS 1:
In half sleep I’ve forgotten and have reached for you in bed.
When my hand finds only air I hug your pillow instead.

CHORUS:
Walled-up streams of hot tears burst through & pour down on my face.
There can be so much power in an empty space.
I can’t fill the hole you left although I’ve tried.
All my befores and afters-- they began and ended the day you died.

VERSE 2:
Your place at the table—it whispers of change.
Your vacant chair tugs upon my heart.
A faint hint of perfume (or cologne) on your bathrobe brings pain.
I wonder how long we will be apart.

PRE-CHORUS 2:
We must have been made one flesh on our wedding day.
Because part of me was ripped out on the day you went away.
CHORUS:
Walled-up streams of hot tears burst through and pour down on my face.
There can be so much power in an empty space.
I can’t fill the hole you left although I’ve tried.
All my befores and afters—they began and ended the day you died.

TAG:
All my befores and afters—they began and ended the day you died.
Whoa oh whoa the day you died. Whoa oh whoa.

The clock keeps ticking.