Empty Hearts - Josh Ritter

So save all of your light

For those who can’t sleep at night

And who can’t even sing to their shadows

Oh they ride into town

And they throw the shots down

And they save the last round for the windows

Singing don’t let me into this year with an empty heart

With an empty heart

Don’t let me into this year with an empty heart

I’m inside with my friends

We build fires and pretend

That the night could just bend on forever

While outside in the frost

Are the wolves and the lost

And we sing to the dogs or whoever

Singing don’t let me into this year with an empty heart

With an empty heart

Don’t let me into this year with an empty heart

There’s a friend that I have

And for her I’ll go back

You see all of these empties that I’m holding

They’re too much for a man

Empty arms, empty hands

And she’ll know me by the sound of my hoping

Singing don’t let me into this year with an empty heart

With an empty heart

Don’t let me into this year with an empty heart