Empty Chairs

[00:02.03] {MARIUS, at the ABC Cafe)}

[00:07.07] There's a grief that can't be spoken.

[00:12.39] There's a pain goes on and on.

[00:17.43] Empty chairs at empty tables

[00:21.15] Now my friends are dead and gone.

[00:28.07] Here they talked of revolution.

[00:32.85] Here it was they lit the flame.

[00:38.16] Here they sang about `tomorrow'

[00:41.88] And tomorrow never came.

[00:49.59] From the table in the corner

[00:54.37] They could see a world reborn

[00:58.89] And they rose with voices ringing

[01:03.40] I can hear them now!

[01:07.12] The very words that they had sung

[01:13.49] Became their last communion

[01:20.13] On the lonely barricade at dawn.

[01:27.63] Oh my friends, my friends forgive me

[01:28.95] (Ghosts of those who died on the barricade appear)

[01:32.66] That I live and you are gone.

[01:37.45] There's a grief that can't be spoken.

[01:41.16] There's a pain goes on and on.

[01:47.28] Phantom faces at the window.

[01:52.05] Phantom shadows on the floor.

[01:56.57] Empty chairs at empty tables

[02:00.02] Where my friends will meet no more.

[02:01.62] (The ghosts fade away)

[02:06.14] Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me

[02:13.32] What your sacrifice was for

[02:18.09] Empty chairs at empty tables

[02:21.82] Where my friend will sing no more.