Les Miserables (Empty Chairs at Empty Tables) Lyrics

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 talk 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 whit voices ringing
And I can hear them now
The very words that they have sung
Became their last communion

On this 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 windows
Phantoms 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