Empty Chairs At Empty Tables Lyrics

     [Marius, recovering from his wounds, imagines he's back
     at the ABC cafe.]

Marius
     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 lowly barricade..
     At dawn.

     Oh my friends, my friends forgive me.

     [The ghosts of those who died on the barricade appear.]

     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.

     [The ghosts fade away.]

     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...