Empty Is

Empty Is

Composer

Rod McKuen

Lyricist

Rod McKuen

Published

Album

A Man Alone (1969)

Artist

Frank Sinatra

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Release

1969

Recording

March 21, 1969

Royalties

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"Empty Is" is a song from Frank Sinatra's 1969 album A Man Alone: The Words and Music of McKuen.

Lyrics

Empty is the sky before the sun wakes up.
Empty is the eyes of animals in cages.
Empty, faces of women mourning
When everything's been taken from them.
Me, don't ask me about empty.

Empty is a string of dirty days
Held together by some rain.
And the cold winds drumming at the trees again.
Empty is the color of the fear
Long about September when the days
Go marching in a line toward November.
Empty is the hour before sleep chills you every night
And pushes you to take me away from every kind of light.
Empty is me.
Empty is me.