Empty Chairs at Empty Tables | |
Released: | 9/3/13 |
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By: | Cast of Les Miserablés |
Sung by: | Luke |
Solos: | Luke |
Place: | William McKinley High School's boys toilets, Luke Shakespeare Sphere Memorial Auditorium |
Episode: | Welcome to the Choir Room |
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables by Cast of Les Miserablés is a song featured in Welcome to the Choir Room, the first episode of Season One. It is sung by Luke Hensley.
He sings it in the school auditorium, The Luke Shakespeare Sphere Memorial. He begins to sing it after his popular friends ditch him, because he decided to join the New Directions. He goes to bathroom, and sings it into the mirror. The scene quickly changes to the auditorium, where Luke performs it for Kerwin and is accepted into the club.
Lyrics[]
Luke:
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"
But tomorrow never came.
From a 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 that 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 meet no more.