EMPTY CHAIRS AT EMPTY TABLES
(Les Miserables)
There's a grief that can't be spoken.
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends
Are dead and gone.
Here they talked of revolution.
Here it was they lit the flame.
Here they sang about tomorrow'
And tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner
They could see
A world reborn
And they rose
With voices ringing
I can hear them now!
The very words
That they had sung
Became their last
Communion
On the lonely barricade
At dawn.
Oh my friends
My friends forgive me
That I live
And you are gone.
There's a grief
That can't be spoken.
There's a pain
Goes on and on.
Phantom faces at the window.
Phantom shadows on the floor.
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends
Will meet no more.
Oh my friends
My friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs
At empty tables
Where my friends
Will sing no more
THANK YOU
