Les Miserables movie - Empty Chairs at Empty Tables lyrics

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Song by Marius<br /><br>

(Marius, recovering from his wounds, imagines he is back at the ABC cafe)<br>

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MARIUS<br>

There's a grief that can't be spoken.<br>

There's a pain goes on and on.<br>

Empty chairs at empty tables<br>

Now my friends are dead and gone.<br>

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Here they talked of revolution.<br>

Here it was they lit the flame.<br>

Here they sang about `tomorrow'<br>

And tomorrow never came.<br>

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From the table in the corner<br>

They could see a world reborn<br>

And they rose with voices ringing<br>

I can hear them now!<br>

The very words that they had sung<br>

Became their last communion<br>

On the lonely barricade at dawn.<br>

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Oh my friends, my friends forgive me<br>

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(The ghosts of those who died on the barricade appear)<br>

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That I live and you are gone.<br>

There's a grief that can't be spoken.<br>

There's a pain goes on and on.<br>

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Phantom faces at the window.<br>

Phantom shadows on the floor.<br>

Empty chairs at empty tables<br>

Where my friends will meet no more.<br>

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(The ghosts fade away)<br>

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Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me<br>

What your sacrifice was for<br>

Empty chairs at empty tables<br>

Where my friends will sing no more.<br>

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