This House Is Empty Now

Elvis Costello

These rooms play tricks upon you


Remember when they were always filled with laughter?


But now they're quite deserted


They seem to just echo voices raised in anger


Maybe you will see my face


Reflected there on the pane


In the window of our poor


Forlorn and broken home





Still this house is empty now


There's nothing I can do


To make you want to stay


So tell me how


Am I supposed to live without you?





These walls were lined with pictures


Remember the glass we charged in celebration?


But now I fill my life up


With all that I can to deaden this sensation





Do you recognize the face


Fixed in that fine silver frame


Were you really so unhappy then?


You never said





So this house is empty now


There's nothing I can do


To make you want to stay


So tell me how


Am I supposed to live without you?





Oh, if I could just become forgetful


When night seems endless


Does the extinguished candle care


About the darkness?





It's funny how my mem'ry


Will bring you so close then make you disappear





Meanwhile all our friends must choose


Who they will favour, who they will lose


Hang the garland high or close the door


And throw away the key





This house is empty now


There's no one living here


You have to care about


This house is empty now


There's nothing I can do


To make you want to stay


So tell me how


Am I supposed to live without you?





This house is empty now


There's no one living here


You have to care about


This house is empty now


There's nothing I can do


To make you want to stay


So tell me how


Am I supposed to live without you?

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