Empty Chairs At Empty Tables Lyrics

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables lyrics

[Marius, recovering from his wounds, imagines he's back at the ABC cafe.]

 

 Marius

 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 lowly barricade..

 At dawn.

 

 Oh my friends, my friends forgive me.

 

 [The ghosts of those who died on the barricade appear.]

 

 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.

 

 [The ghosts fade away.]

 

 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...