No More Empty Words

You don't need to be afraid

Those hesitations of the past

Your best selling paperback

The ugly duckling has the last laugh

Everybody's got a fighting chance

'Cause I've spent years looking back

Got me nowhere, got me nowhere

While the wind caught your hair

Yes, the wind caught your hair

Darling, no more empty words

They're just hurtful and misleading

Can't you see that?

Darling, no more empty words

They're just hurtful and misleading

Can't you see that?

So you threw it all away

But you're worth the whole damn lot of them

But this morning something changed

I saw my life stretched over plains

And everybody had a fighting chance

While I spent years looking back

Got me nowhere, got me nowhere

While the wind caught your hair

Yes, the wind caught your hair

Darling, no more empty words

They're just hurtful and misleading

Can't you see that?

Darling, no more empty words

(Can't you feel for a second?)

They're just hurtful and misleading

Can't you see that?

Someday I'll rise up again

And try to make something in my life

It's not too late

Darling, no more empty words

(Can't you feel for a second?)

They're just hurtful and misleading

Can't you see that?