[Intro] (Slow fade-in, sub drone) Distant echoes blur the plain. Fields lie fallow after rain. Sun-bleached letters peel with time. [Verse 1] Dust motes drift through amber light. A splintered fence leans out of sight. The wind rehearses your first name. Footprints circle a rusted frame. [Pre-Chorus] (Reversed strings swell) Across the pasture, thin and plea-like. A paper-thin hope we barely strike. The daylight thins to watercolor ends. An old refrain the horizon sends. [Chorus] Empty Spaces Empty Spaces, canyoned and steep. (wide reverb) Empty Spaces, where old letters sleep. Empty Spaces, debts we couldn't keep. [Verse 2] One crooked tree against the grey. Crows stitch shadows into day. A broken swing creaks soft and low. Chains remember what we let go. [Bridge] (Piano motif intensifies, sub bass pulses) The map keeps shifting underfoot. Seasons edit what we put. The past still flickers, half-disguised. In glassy, unreturned eyes. (tape stop) [Chorus] Empty Spaces Empty Spaces, canyoned and steep. Empty Spaces, where old letters sleep. Empty Spaces, debts we couldn't keep. [Outro] (Analog pads swell, slowly fade) Light drains off the distant shore. (Sub drone sustained, slowly decays) Nothing answers anymore.
