What do you sing when the songs been sung?
~#**************#~
Who do you fight when the war is won?
~#**************#~
What do you write when the book is done?
~#**************#~
What do you sing when the songs been sung?
~#**************#~
[Verse 2]
~#**************#~
How do you pray until you find your prayer?
~#**************#~
How can you care so much you just dont care?
~#**************#~
How do you feel until the feelin comes?
~#**************#~
Until you love yourself, how can you love someone?
~#**************#~
[Chorus]
~#**************#~
Here I am, a hollow man
~#**************#~
Tellin stories bout the promise of a promised land
~#**************#~
Feel like a cheap bouquet of flowers, an a one-man band
~#**************#~
With my heart in hand, the hollow man
~#**************#~
[Verse 3]
~#**************#~
How does it work when the words dont come?
~#**************#~
Its like pullin the trigger on an empty gun
~#**************#~
You cant makе it rain starin at the sun
~#**************#~
So you work at your work, until the work gets donе
~#**************#~
[Chorus]
~#**************#~
Here I am, a hollow man
~#**************#~
Tellin stories bout the promise of a promised land
~#**************#~
Feel like a holy rollers rosary on a one-night stand
~#**************#~
With my heart in hand, the hollow man
~#**************#~
[Bridge]
~#**************#~
Im a blank page, clean slate
~#**************#~
At night, Ill give my soul away
~#**************#~
When nothins left, Ill give you a smile
~#**************#~
I got these chords that wont wait
~#**************#~
Im much too vain to masturbate
~#**************#~
No sacrificin substance for style
~#**************#~
Awe, anyway, ha, I got you to smile
~#**************#~
[Verse 4]
~#**************#~
What do you see that your eyes dont see?
~#**************#~
And what do you dream, now that youve sold your dreams?
~#**************#~
And what do you sing when the songs been sung?
~#**************#~
What do you sing when the songs been sung?
~#**************#~
[Chorus]
~#**************#~
Here I am, the hollow man
~#**************#~
Sellin stories bout the promise of a promised land
~#**************#~
I feel like a cheap bouquet of flowers, an a one-man band
~#**************#~
Im just a holy rollers rosary on a one-night stand
~#**************#~
With my heart in hand
~#**************#~
I am
~#**************#~
The hollow man
