There's a grief that can't be spoken. There's pain goes on and 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 tomorrow' And tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner They could see a world And they with voices ringing I can hear them now! The very words that they had sung their 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 goes on and on.
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 don't ask me What your sacrifice was for Empty chairs at empty tables my friends will sing no more.