Empty hands

Verse 1

Now that you've got your trophy

Go hold it up high

Show everybody you won

Behind that perfect smile

Tell me, does it feel like glory

Standing on the other side?

'Cause the ones who paid the price for it

Were never yours to sacrifice

You got the papers that you wanted

You got the final word somehow

But the little hearts still breaking

Are the ones that matter now

You call it justice

You call it truth

But they're crying over promises

You never followed through

Chorus

You got everything you wanted

At least that's how it seems

But some victories leave shadows

Where there used to be dreams

And the hardest part is knowing

There's nothing left for me to say

Just standing here with empty hands

As they slowly walk away

Verse 2

I'm gonna miss their questions

The ones that never end

The little hands reaching for me

And hearing my name again

They don't talk about the courtroom

Or who was wrong or right

They just know that something changed

And they don't know why

I wish that I could stop this

Take away the hurt somehow

But all I can do is love them

From where I'm standing now

Bridge

I know I have to let go

Even though it breaks my heart

'Cause loving them sometimes means

Watching from afar

And if they ever think I left them

I hope somehow they know

There wasn't a day I didn't love them

There wasn't a day I chose to go

Final Chorus

You got everything you wanted

At least that's how it seems

But some victories leave shadows

Where there used to be dreams

And the hardest part is knowing

There's nothing left for me to say

Just standing here with empty hands

As they slowly walk away

Outro

As they slowly walk away...

As they slowly walk away...