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“The Emptiness is an idea that my co-vocalist and co-creator Dennis Lee and I have had since the days of recording our first EP, Try This With Your Eyes Closed. We’ve spent our career thus far basing our songs and lyrics on the works of some of our inayopendelewa authors and literature of the past (i.e. stories in Greek mythology, fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm) and some chosen contemporary screenwriting (i.e. Heroes, The Princess Bride). However, even back when we first started uandishi together, he and I always talked about uandishi our own story that we...

Two roads mgawanyiko, baidisha off from here,
and my life goes running in opposite directions.
Exaggerating the barrier between who I am,
and who I want to be.

I wanted to be that breath of fresh air,
When everything smelled so insincere.
But this taste still lingers in my mouth,
Deceit has ways of sticking around.
And I'm ready to disappear,
Vacation seems far(seems far) from here.

Note to self:
I miss wewe terribly.
This is what
we call a tragedy.
Come back to me,
Come back to me,
To me.

Note to self:
I miss wewe terribly.
This is what
we call a tragedy.
Come back to me,
back to me,
To me.

I can feel my mind
wandering...

Ah Come on!

I can't believe,
The drama that I'm in,
The flood is getting closer,
I don't think they know that I know how to swim,
You're feeling numb, from all that has become.
It leaves your gums, slips down your tongue,
and travels fast down towards your lungs.
All because I (leaving wewe behind)

I feel the pressure,
It's coming down on me,
It's turning me black and blue!
Oh whoa
You left me on the side of the road (side of the road!)
And now I've got no place to go,
You brought the flood!

I can't believe
The troubles that you've caused,
The pain is getting stronger
like an open wound without the gauze,
It's...

hujambo there,
I know it's hard to feel like I don't care at all.
Where wewe are and how wewe feel.
With these lights off as these wheels
keep rolling on and on. (and on and on and on...)
Slow things down au speed them up.
Not enough au way too much. (and on and on and on...)
How are wewe when I'm gone?

[Chorus:]
And I can't make it on my own.
(And I can't make it on my own.)
Because my moyo is in Ohio.
So cut my wrists and black my eyes.
(Cut my wrists and black my eyes)
So I can fall asleep tonight, au die.
Because wewe kill me.
You know wewe do, wewe kill me well.
You like it too, and I can tell.
You never stop until...

Yeah!

And if your moyo stops beating
I'll be here wondering
Did wewe get what wewe deserve?
The ending of your life
And if wewe get to heaven
I'll be here waiting, babe
Did wewe get what wewe deserve?
The end, and if your life won't wait
Then your moyo can't take this

Have wewe heard the news that you're dead?
No one ever had much nice to say
I think they never liked wewe anyway
Oh take me from the hospital bed
Wouldn't it be grand? It ain't exactly what wewe planned.
And wouldn't it be great If we were dead?
Ohh dead.

Tongue-tied and oh so squeamish
You never fell in love
Did wewe get what wewe deserve?
The ending of...

Long zamani
Just like the hearse wewe die to get in again
We are so far from wewe

Burning on just like a match wewe strike to incinerate
The lives of everyone wewe know
And what's the worst wewe take (worst wewe take)
from every moyo wewe break (heart wewe break)
And like the blade wewe stain (blade wewe stain)
Well I've been holding on tonight

What's the worst that I can say?
Things are better if I stay
So long and goodnight
So long and goodnight

Came a time
When every nyota fall brought wewe to tears again
We are the very hurt wewe sold
And what's the worst wewe take (worst wewe take)
from every moyo wewe break...

God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfoght
It can't be outdone
It can't out matched
It can't be outrun
No

God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
And it can't be outfoght
It can't be outdone
It can't out matched
It can't be outrun
No

And when I close my eyes tonight
To symphonies of blinding light
(God bless us everyone
We're a broken people living under loaded gun
Oh)
Like memories in cold decay
Transmissions echoing away
Far from the world of wewe and I
Where oceans bleed into the sky

God save us everyone,
Will we burn inside the fires...