[00:00.000][00:42.520]She lifts her skirt up to her knees[00:45.830]Walks through the garden of roses with her bare feet laughing[00:54.130]I never learned to count my blessings[00:57.620]I choose instead to dwell in my disasters[01:06.510]I walk on down the hill[01:09.200]Through grass grown tall and brown[01:12.440]And still it's hard somehow to let go of my pain[01:18.760]On past the busted back and[01:21.590]Of that old and rusted Cadillac[01:24.110]That sinks into this field collecting rain[01:29.830]Will I always feel this way?[01:41.410]So empty, so estranged[01:58.870]Of these cutthroat busted sunsets[02:02.260]These cold and damp white mornings I have grown weary[02:10.250]If through my cracked and dusty dime store lips[02:14.210]I spoke these words out loud would no one hear me[02:22.340]Lay your blouse across the chair[02:25.930]Let fall the flowers from your hair[02:28.710]And kiss me with that country mouth so plain[02:34.690]Outside the rain is tapping on the leaves[02:38.630]To me it sounds like they're applauding us[02:42.330]The quiet love we‘ve made[02:46.420]Will I always feel this way?[02:58.810]So empty, so estranged[03:45.550]Well I looked my demons in the eyes[03:48.980]Laid bare my chest said do your best destroy me[03:57.190]See I've been to hell and back so many times[04:01.530]I must admit you kinda bore me[04:09.420]There's a lot of things that can kill a man[04:12.510]There's a lot of ways to die[04:15.090]Yes and some already dead who walk beside me[04:21.310]There's a lot of things I don't understand[04:24.140]Why so many people lie[04:26.950]Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fire inside me[04:33.330]Will I always feel this way?[04:45.020]So empty, so estranged