Empty Pages

Empty pages before my eyes

Do not deny or criticize

Empty bedrooms where I paid my dues

Watching the ceiling instead of you

Can you tell me where you’ve gone?

Ain’t no one around to hear my song

I’ve got some songs I’d like to sing

Always brings down some other thing

Where can I go? my [hands/gloves?] are broken

It seems like your love is just a token

So won’t you stay with me?

Up in the morning and out the door

No one won’t come in I gotta live alone

Back in the evening with the [ ]

I got a mind to push out

Words and music by Ron McKernan

Notes:

No official recording.

First performance: August 24, 1971, at the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. It was only played twice.