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Empty Chair

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Hip-Hop/Rap

Empty Chair was released on July 3, 2026 by HC Music as a part of the album Before It Pulls Me Under

Song Details

AlbumBefore It Pulls Me Under

Release DateJuly 3, 2026

LabelHC Music

LanguageEnglish

Melodicness

Acousticness

Valence

Danceability

Energy

BPM85

OVERVIEW

LYRICS

Credits

PERFORMING ARTISTS

HC

Rap

COMPOSITION & LYRICS

Joshua Holly

Songwriter

PRODUCTION & ENGINEERING

HC

Producer

Lyrics

First one without you and we all showed up anyway

Like showing up was something we could do to make it okay

Somebody set your place before they thought about what that meant

Sat there for a minute before anyone said anything

Somebody tried the prayer but lost it halfway through

Nobody filled the silence 'cause the silence was for you

The food was right the table was the same the house was yours

But every room had something missing standing in its doors

I kept expecting you to come around the corner any second

Kept forgetting for a moment then remembering the lesson

That forgetting is just grief finding somewhere to breathe

And remembering is the wave that brings you back to your knees

We stayed too long that night nobody wanted to be first

To leave 'cause leaving meant admitting what we knew was worst

That the house don't hold the same without the one who held it

That we only knew our family through the shape that you had built it

Empty chair at every table

Empty space nobody's named

We keep showing up 'cause that's what you would want

But nothing feels the same

Second one and half the family didn't make the drive

Told themselves they had other plans but really they just tried

To avoid the version of the table that had your seat pulled in

Like putting it away would mean admitting where we'd been

The group chat that would light up weeks before went quiet

Nobody planned the dinner nobody wanted to defy it

That unspoken thing we'd all agreed to without speaking

That maybe this year we'd just let it go without the grieving

Of a room that used to overflow now barely half capacity

And I sat there with my plate and felt the strange audacity

Of hunger at a table that was supposed to feel like home

But home had quietly become a place we visited alone

I called somebody on the drive back didn't say much

Just needed someone's voice, needed something to stay in touch

With the idea that we were still a family still a thing

That the absence of the center doesn't mean the end of everything

Empty chair at every table

Empty space nobody's named

We keep showing up 'cause that's what you would want

But nothing feels the same

Third one and I almost didn't mark it at all

Caught myself forgetting until sometime in the fall

When the light changed and my body knew before my brain

The way it always knows now every year the same

No table this time just a phone call maybe two

Someone mentioned you in passing like a thing we already knew

To carry and move around like furniture we're used to

Not the sharp thing anymore just something we've adjusted to

And I drove past the house without a reason I could name

Sat outside for longer than I'd probably ever claim

The lights were on inside somebody else's family now

Making memories in rooms we built and somewhere in the how

Of all of this I understood what loss does over time

It doesn't leave it just gets folded into the design

Of everything you are of every table that you set

You're in the way we show up when we show up

You're in that yet

The hardest part isn't the first one

Everyone prepares you for the first one

The hardest part is the one where you realize

You've stopped counting which one it is

The one where it's just life now

Just the shape of things

Just the chair that nobody sits in

That nobody mentions

That everybody sees

Empty chair at every table

Empty space we've learned to hold

We keep showing up 'cause that's what you would want

We keep showing up

We keep showing up

That's all we know

I still set a place sometimes

Don't know why

Just feels right

Written by: Joshua Holly

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