This Empty Room

Rolling along with the theme of moving, I thought about what it must be like to start a new life with someone. My room mates are married and have already made the shift from “you and I” to “we”, but I haven’t made it there yet.

It seems like one of the hardest things to do as a relationship gets serious is to stop thinking about your life, your stuff, and your way of doing things, focusing instead on your future with that special other person.

I imagine it’s sort of like moving into an empty house. You had all your stuff in its places back at the old house, but now you have to rearrange your entire life to fit the new environment. If my life was like an empty room, I’d want someone else to fill it with me.

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Lyrics:

You and I got a lot to talk about
like all the useless things that we could live without:
The piles of books we never read but can’t throw out,
the magazines and faded jeans that lay around.
They build up like insulation in our homes.
They keep us cozy when we strike out on our own
but it’s time to cast all that aside.
All these things just give us someplace we can hide.
We could paint the walls with all our hopes and dreams we kept inside.
With all the things we’ve kept inside

We could fill this empty room
with furniture and promises for two.
With all our hearts and minds and time
together there is nothing we can’t do.
There is nothing we can’t do
to fill this empty room.

And all the years that brought us stuff to fill our lives
taught us both without these things we won’t survive.
The games and photo frames with one of us inside-
there is room for two if we could only try.
We could hang a whole new life up on these walls
filling in the space around as time goes on.
All the remnants of my past can move along,
we’ll have room for memories when those things are gone.
I can say goodbye to all the things that keep me far from you
and all the things you do.

You and I got a lot to talk about
like all the precious things that we can’t live without.