Empty
Short of breath, she tells me about the new order
While kicking the crap out of the bar’s vending machine
She says it’s the cyber revolution and absolutely everything is artificial
And I just can’t get myself to tell her Look
Your roots are showing
Pick me up
Turn me inside out
Turn me upside down
Can’t you see I’m empty?
Pick me up
Throw me down
Kick me all around
Can’t you see I’m empty?
I’m in a really deep conversation with a pacifist across from me
And I can’t hear a single word he’s saying to me
And like an angel on his shoulder
There’s a girl on the dance floor
Dancing with the devil on his other shoulder
As I peacefully kill another poor, innocent cigarette
Pick me up
Turn me inside out
Turn me upside down
Can’t you see I’m empty?
Pick me up
Throw me down
Kick me all around
Can’t you see I’m empty?
I’m empty
There’s a guy to my right
Dragging at his cigarette like he’s trying to remember where exactly he lost his mind
And desperately aiming at an ashtray he misses completely
And burns a hole in my evening wear
I tell him it’s fine
I tell him, hey, you know, it happens
Only later to see him set fire to the pacifist’s big, big hair
Pick me up
Turn me inside out
Turn me upside down
Can’t you see I’m empty?
Pick me up
Throw me down
Kick me all around
Can’t you see I’m empty?
I’m empty
Oh I’m empty
And on stage there’s a girl screaming her beefed up songs
With the faked aggression of a vegetarian
And her six string anorexic is doing his backing vocals like he’s giving a demon head
And I’m just sitting in the corner trying to remember one single thing
The scorched pacifist had said
I’m in the corner, I
I got another bottle with a hole in the top
And I’m sucking it dry
Seems we’ve been sitting forever
Getting empty together
My bottle and I
Now this ain’t no holy spirit
And it sure ain’t much of a high
Yes, I guess my friend at best
Is a malicious crutch
‘Cause how can one man drink so much
And still be too dry?
Too dry to cry?
Pick me up
Turn me inside out
Turn me upside down
Can’t you see I’m empty?
Pick me up
Throw me down
Kick me all around
Can’t you see I’m empty?
Pick me up
Turn me inside out
Turn me upside down
Can’t you see I’m empty?
Pick me up
Throw me down
Kick me all around
Can’t you see I’m empty?
I’m empty, oh
I’m empty
‘Cause I’m empty, oh
I’m empty