Empty Like Y'all

The Story Behind the Song

Written from a place of faith, aimed at people who use cruelty or performative outrage as a substitute for meaning. The narrator isn't claiming to be better, just different -- someone who's found something to hold onto that the song's targets, in their emptiness, haven't. It ends less as an attack than as a kind of pity.

Sadie McCoy's "Hers" edition performs this same song with her own vocal performance; per-track durations and a dedicated page for her edition aren't published yet.

Lyrics

You silence the voices that won’t pay your fees, And you’ll only listen if the message agrees. You want the whole world to hear what you say, But you shut us all out, every hour, every day. I’ll never know what it’s like to be empty like y’all, Goin’ through my life with no hope at all. We don’t follow Him because the church is always right, We hold up the cross so we can make it through the night. You sell out our children for fortune and fame, Rewrite the rules and spit on His name. But justice is coming and won’t be delayed, The Judge is eternal — the debt will be paid. You 're so happy when one of us dies, Then you go back to your soulless lives. For you maybe that’s fine, But when Judgement Day comes… too late to think twice… Y'all act like you've never made mistakes, Thinkin' you're perfect, always knowin' the way,  You say that you care, but we all see it's fake,  When that final day comes, let it fall where it may. I’ll never know what it’s like to be empty like y’all, Goin’ through my days with no hope at all. We don’t follow Him because the church is always right, We hold up the cross so we can make it through the night. I’ll never know what it’s like to be empty like y’all, Goin’ through my days with no hope at all. We don’t follow Him because the church is always right, We hold up the cross so we can make it through the night.