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"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables," (Les Miserables), Michael Ball [10th Anniversary]
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PERFORMING ARTISTS
Michael Ball
Michael Ball
Vocals
Anne Skates
Anne Skates
Background Vocals
Shena McSween
Shena McSween
Background Vocals
Mick Wilson
Mick Wilson
Background Vocals
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Claude-Michel Schönberg
Composer
Alain Boublil
Alain Boublil
Lyrics
Herbert Kretzmer
Herbert Kretzmer
Composer
PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING
Nigel Wright
Nigel Wright
Producer
Robin Sellars
Robin Sellars
Mixing Engineer

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 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 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 window
Phantom 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
Written by: Alain Boublil, Claude-Michel Schönberg, Herbert Kretzmer

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