Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

from JOE ROSE - CLASS by JOE ROSE

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As heard on BBC Radio 2 thanks to Elaine Paige on Sunday 7th July 2019.
Featured on London Live and That's TV Norfolk
This track will be on Joe's debut album which will also include classic tracks made famous by the greats
Joe Longthorne Love is All,
Elvis Presley - Can't Help Falling in Love,
Engelbert Humperdinck - Please Release Me,
Neil Diamond - Hello Again,
Matt Monro - If I Never Sing Another Song,
Andy Williams - Love Story,
Tom Jones - Delilah,
Charles Aznavor - She,
Nat King Cole - L.O.V.E.,
Dean Martin - Ain't That A Kick in the Head,
Red, Red Rose and Amazing Grace

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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 have 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,
And there's a pain 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 friend will sing no more.

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from JOE ROSE - CLASS, track released October 19, 2019

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Folkstock Records UK

Boutique label releasing handpicked singer songwriters from the Folkstock fold.
Most engineering, mixing and mastering by Lauren Deakin Davies.
Except Bright Season by Bright Season - released 31st May 2014
The F Spot by Friends of Folkstock - release date 17th May 2014
Passing the Baton - Swarb and Folkstock friends - 5th April 2014
Debut EP release from Kelly Oliver on 26.11.13. Far From Home ... more

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