“Empty House” tells the story of a lonely man following a breakup. The autotune used in the song is an odd feature added by Matt Thiessen in the production of the record, giving the song a “slurred” feel, and making some words unintelligible.
[Verse 1]
There was this time when I was thinkin' bout somethin' inside
And you could think the same thing that you want
And everything about you, everything is, and get this on my mind
I'm crazy now
You got this some days and out of town to get this step right
It still get my heartache, yeah
There's so much give and get and you've come and gone
Until it's all done right
[Chorus]
An empty house
Time to get myself back home
Nothing but an empty house
Living without you
An empty house
Time to get myself back home
Nothing but an empty house
Living without you
[Verse 2]
You got this thing about you, everything I think about you
Is gonna go and make me something else
You've been a smile on my face for about these two past days
And you believe it's true
And I believe it, too
And everything's gonna be alright when you say I
I've got this thing about you
[Chorus]
An empty house
Time to get myself back home
Nothing but an empty house
Living without you
An empty house
Time to get myself back home
Nothing but an empty house
Nothing but an empty house
Nothing but an empty house
[Verse 3]
There was this time in my life, you had this minute
But it, it lasted, oh, for many days
(And I don't know what that is)
But everybody knows that I'm about to mumble out some... (I'm about to mumble out some...)
And that's the last time I could say it with a straight face
I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow
And baby, I don't wanna do it unless you're...
Empty House was written by Matthew Thiessen.
Empty House was produced by Mark Lee Townsend.
Relient K released Empty House on Thu Jul 21 2016.
These are not official lyrics at all! Official lyrics would be very helpful, as Matt’s auto-tuned slurs are very difficult to discern at points. That being said, these lyrics appear to be the closest (to accurate) the Internet has to offer.
The interesting part, I suppose, is I didn’t play around with it very much. I didn’t know what to sing over the song, so I hit record and what I did is what the song is, what the one lead vocal is in the song. And then I was like, all right. I’m done. I threw an Auto-Tuner on it and some effects I h...