Empty chairs at empty tables
Me gusta esta versión del niño Cormac Thompson del musical Los Miserables de Claude-Michel Schönberg de 1980. Quizás porque no está dramatizada y se aprecia mejor la belleza de la letra. Fue publicada para ayudar a la campaña de 'Acting For Others', en apoyo al mundo del teatro tras el COVID en 2021. 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 And I can hear them now! The very words that they had 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 window Phantom shadows on the floor Empty chairs at e...