Sam Fender – Empty Spaces (Guitar)

Half-Step Down (Eb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb)
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Chords

[Intro] Em7 Cadd9 G G Em7 Cadd9 G Em7add4 keep 3rd and 4th finger on 3rd fret of E and B for the whole song and play em7add 4 e - 3 b - 3 g - 2 d - 2 a e [Verse 1]
Em7add4                       Em7
There's something here in the water

Cadd9                 G
Hear all the kooks outside

    Em7add4            Em7                   Cadd9              G
The end of the line forgotten folk screaming out on a desperate night

Em7add4                           Em7
There's something dark about this hotel

Cadd9              G
It just don't feel right

           Em7add4           Em7
It's got a history that I've read about

        Cadd9                 G
Left my stomach in a knot all night
[Verse 2]
Em7add4                   Em7
I caught a glimpse of the sadness

   Cadd9             G
So shocked it was my resting face

  Em7add4                      Em7
I know it was I who pulled the trigger

           Cadd9                  G
But I'm confused and out of place

 Em7add4                    Em7    Cadd9               G
It's so weird that we're strangers when you were all I had

          Em7add4             Em7                    Cadd9     G
I've been trying to fill this void in me since I was a young lad
[Chorus]
           Em7add4  Em7               Cadd9  G                      Em7add4
It's gonna take         a really long time     to forgive all of my failures

Em7                   C Cadd9 G
 And fill up all these empty   spaces
Em7add4 Em7 Cadd9 G x2 [Verse 3]
Em7add4               Em7
I had a call with my mother

     Cadd9                G
I've barely called her at all

      Em7add4                     Em7             Cadd9             G
I can hear all the beeps of the machinery, nurses chattering on the ward

Em7add4                  Em7
I've got a stutter and a shaky hand

      Cadd9          G
And a fat lump in my throat

           Em7add4                 Em7
That I was taught real good how to push it down

       Cadd9                    G
So far down it's like a stomach bug
[Verse 4]
Em7add4          Em7          Cadd9              G
My friend sent a video of his 5 year old girl in bits

Em7add4             Em7                Cadd9             G
Terrified she'd be alone someday and I just fell to pieces

         Em7add4            Em7
He keeps kicking the can of mortality down the line

          Cadd9                 G
There's a reason why heaven was made up

       Em7add4            Em7
She'll worry her little heart out

              Cadd9       G
Just like the rest of us
[Chorus]
           Em7add4  Em7               Cadd9  G                      Em7add4
It's gonna take         a really long time     to forgive all of my failures

Em7                   C Cadd9 G
 And fill up all these empty   spaces

      Em7add4  Em7           Cadd9  G                      Em7add4
It'll take a       real long time     to forgive all of my failures

Em7                    C Cadd9 G
 And fill up all these empty    spaces
(repeat same chords until end)