“Empty Words” expresses pain felt by someone who has been broken by another individual leaving them with the haunting Empty Words."
[Verse 1]
Ashes and promises
Share a bond through the winds of change
Words are blown away
When visions that should be
Are tattooed in your mind
The power to let go is sometimes hard to find
[Refrain]
The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories
We find ourselves confined
[Pre-Chorus]
Claws so razor sharp
Ripping at the spirit
[Chorus]
Promises a potential to hurt, is anything real?
When forever is to be until
Deep inside, in the world of empty words...
No escaping from those haunting empty words...
[Guitar Solo]
[Bridge]
Do you ever feel it? A craving that is so strong
To by thought rewind in order to find
[Verse 2]
Expectations that shined
Through the doubt that soon would turn into the price
Of what a word
Will be worth when tomorrow comes
To be and we are left
Standing on our own and seeing what is real
[Refrain]
The answer cannot be found
In the writing of others, or the words of a trained mind
In a precious world of memories
We find ourselves confined
[Pre-Chorus]
Claws so razor sharp
Ripping at the spirit
[Chorus]
Promises a potential to hurt, is anything real?
When forever is to be until
Deep inside, in the world of empty words...
No escaping from those haunting empty words...
Empty Words was written by Chuck Schuldiner.
Empty Words was produced by Jim Morris & Chuck Schuldiner.
Death released Empty Words on Tue Mar 21 1995.