《It’s So Much Darker When a Light Goes Out than It Would Have Been If It Had Never Shone》歌词

[00:00:00] It's So Much Darker When a Light Goes Out than It Would Have Been If It Had Never Shone - Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)

[00:00:01] I was ten years old when my grandparents on my father's side

[00:00:19] Celebrated the 50th anniversary of their marriage

[00:00:34] Our family piled into our tan '85 aero star

[00:00:47] The same one that famously died on the way to my

[00:00:55] Younger sister's dance recital when the entire drive shaft

[00:01:05] Dropped out from underneath and shot

[00:01:11] Like a torpedo down the open highway

[00:01:24] And made the three hour climb to Cadillac

[00:01:31] There was a reception held at the local v f w hall

[00:01:50] Where my grandfather was a member

[00:01:59] I remember meeting a lot of strangers

[00:02:13] Whose names or faces were either immediately lost

[00:02:24] Or never registered at all

[00:02:31] And how they would all tell us how excited they were

[00:02:41] To meet us

[00:02:46] Do you know how two trees can grow together and become like one

[00:02:56] When my grandmother died my grandfather died too

[00:03:04] It took two whole years to convince his body to let him go