Running on empty

Verse 1

What is it you can’t tell me,

What’s hiding in your chest?

Your heart looks just like mine now,

Too empty, too obsessed.

Running hot on nothing,

No tears left for the pain,

We’re fire with no fuel left,

Still burning all the same.

Pre-Chorus

I always wondered where your heart would land,

Mine took a turn I never planned.

Chorus

Too hot, running on empty,

Too close, feeling the same,

Three words could’ve saved us,

But they never came.

We thought that we found it,

But nothing was true,

Love on the ground,

And an empty “I love you.”

Verse 2

A future bride with fury,

White dress, matchstick hands,

We built it in a hurry,

Watched it fall like sand.

We took all that was burning,

Threw it straight into the flame,

Now we’re standing in the ashes,

Still calling out each other’s names.

Pre-Chorus

We said forever way too fast,

Like forever couldn’t crack.

Chorus

Too hot, running on empty,

Hearts loud but hollow inside,

We were screaming in silence,

Letting everything die.

We thought that we found it,

But we were just two,

Love on the ground,

And nothing left to prove.

Bridge

I thought loving you meant freedom,

But freedom never came,

We were chained by all the things

We were too afraid to say.

Lost souls holding hands,

Still afraid to be alone,

Together in the wreckage,

But never really home.

Break (soft)

Where did we go?

Who did we lose?

Was it me,

Or was it you?

Final Chorus

Too hot, running on empty,

Still reaching through the smoke,

If love is just a promise,

Ours was never spoke.

We weren’t free, just falling,

Through a world we never knew,

Two souls lost together,

Still breaking in two.

Outro

Running hot on empty,

Calling that love…

But knowing it wasn’t enough.