Name: This Big Empty
Duration: P00H05M03S
Description: The title of this track came from a film, but the lyrics reflect a feeling that we have all had at one time or another.

This Big Empty

from Chameleon by Robert Lindsay Nathan

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The title of this track came from a film, but the lyrics reflect a feeling that we have all had at one time or another.

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This Big Empty
Copyright 2012 Robert Lindsay Nathan, Jr.

Why do I feel so vacant, lost and empty
From the picture postcard letters that you sent me?
Like a lone tree living stately on the landscape
Or our long forgotten literary “handshake”.

There’s a smile beneath this tattered Stetson hat
But don’t believe appearances at that
Belie observers that are uninvolved
Or mysteries gone unresolved

Is there nothing left me to forsake
From the missing miles and my mad mistakes?
Or the memories that you lent me
And left me lost in This Big Empty.

My destiny has all but sent me
Across this vast and great big empty
With loneliness that’s in my heart aplenty
And solitude that’s meant to be

On a road that leads to lost horizons past;
A forest dense and fishing net that’s cast
Yields a vast expanse of a desert’s soul that’s cast
From diversions never meant to last

Is there nothing left me to forsake
From the missing miles and my mad mistakes?
Or the memories that you lent me
And left me lost in This Big Empty.

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from Chameleon, released November 16, 2018
Music and Lyrics by Robert Lindsay Nathan

Robert Lindsay Nathan: acoustic guitar and lead vocal
Mark Hallman: drums, bass, percussion, feedback, Hammond organ, harmonies
Andre Moran: electric guitar

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Robert Lindsay Nathan Canyon Lake, Texas

Robert Lindsay (Bama) Nathan was born in New Orleans on September 24, 1952. He was raised in Muscle Shoals Alabama and formally educated in Texas (Gig 'em Aggies). He has been writing songs since the early 1970's and has circled the globe playing them.

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