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Elvis Costello Lyrics for Song: This House Is Empty Now
 Lyrics for Album: Painted from Memory [1998]
 
 
 
 23598>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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| Album Lyrics: Painted from Memory [1998] |  
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  Elvis Costello
 "Painted from Memory [1998]"
 
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