Am
There's a grief that can't be spoken
                           C
There's a pain goes on and on
                      Dm
Empty chairs at empty tables
       E                    Am
Now my friends are dead and gone

                            Am
Here they talked of revolution
                         C
Here it was they lit the flame
                       Dm
Here they sang about tomorrow
      E            Am
And tomorrow never came

C7                    F
From the table in the corner
           Cm7   F       Bb
They could see a world reborn
         Bbm       G7     C
And they rose with voices ringing
          Bb        A
And I can hear them now!
         Dm         Dm/C     Bb  Bb/A
The very words that they had sung
  Gm                 G
Became their last communion
F                   Am      Am9
On this lonely barricade at dawn

Am
Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
                        C
That I live and you are gone
                              Dm
There's a grief that can't be spoken
          E                C#m
There's a pain goes on and on

C#m
Phantom faces at the windows
                       E
Phantom shadows on the floor
                      F#m
Empty chairs at empty tables
         G#                   C#m
Where my friends will meet no more
C#m
Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
                        E
What your sacrifice was for
                      F#m
Empty chairs at empty tables
         G#                   C#m
Where my friends will sing no more