Empty Chairs, Empty Tables Lyrics

(claude-michel schonberg/alain boubil/herbert kretzmer)




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.

Michael Ball - The Very Best of Michael Ball: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall

Aug 2000

1. Hot Stuff
2. Everybody's Talkin'
3. Love On The Rocks
4. Something Inside So Strong
5. Someone Else's Dream
6. Medley - The Way We Were / The Rose
7. Oh! What A Circus
8. My Heart Will Go On
9. Empty Chairs, Empty Tables
10. Let The River Run
11. I'll Be There For You (Theme From Friends)
12. One Step Out Of Time
13. Blues Brothers Medley - Shake Your Tail Feathers / Think / Everybody Needs Somebody To Love
14. Love Changes Everything