There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain goes on on. Empty chairs at empty tables Now my friends are dead and gone.
Here they of revolution. Here it was they lit the flame. Here they sang about tomorrow' And tomorrow never
From the table in the corner They could see a world reborn And rose with voices ringing I can hear them now! The very words that they had sung Became last communion On the lonely barricade at dawn.
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me I live and you are gone. There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's a pain on and on.
Phantom faces at the window. Phantom shadows on the floor. Empty chairs 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 my friends will sing no more.