Empty Chair Gospel by Fox_Net006 - Zona

Empty Chair Gospel

Track · Feb 17, 2026 · English

Empty Chair Gospel

Fox_Net006

Duration

3:34

Language

English

Lyrics

[Verse 1]

You were there in the doorway

Coat on

But your eyes were gone

Staring past the family photo

Like the glass was the only one

I learned to read your footsteps

Every creak a kind of prayer

Hoping you might see me

You just walked through the air

[Chorus]

You were a shadow with a last name

Sitting right at the head of the table

But you never asked me anything

Never said my stories mattered at all

You raised your voice

You never raised me

Taught me how to disappear

Now every room I enter

I still look for that empty chair

[Verse 2]

Report cards on the counter

Stacked up like unpaid bills

I practiced every sentence

Till my throat was paper-thin and still

You’d nod at some far-off memory

I wasn’t in it

I could tell

I learned to be my own witness

You just called it “being tough” and “well”

[Chorus]

You were a shadow with a last name

Sitting right at the head of the table

But you never asked me anything

Never said my stories mattered at all

You raised your voice

You never raised me

Taught me how to disappear

Now every room I enter

I still look for that empty chair

[Bridge]

I used to think I broke you

That I was just too much

Now I see the cracks were older

Than my hands could ever touch

I’m learning how to love me

In all the places you forgot

But some nights I still wake up

Answering to a voice

That never called my name a lot

[Chorus]

You were a shadow with a last name

Sitting right at the head of the table

But you never asked me anything

Never said my stories mattered at all

You raised your voice

You never raised me

Taught me how to disappear

I’m filling up the silence

But a part of me stays right there

Small and scared and waiting

In front of that empty chair

Style

sparsereverb-soaked piano ballad with intimate male vocals; verses almost whisperedbreathing in the spacethen chorus swells with layered harmonies and soft organ pads. subtle upright bass doubles the left hand in the hookbrushed drums enter halfway for a slowaching liftthen drop back to just voice and keys on the final line for a rawexposed close.sad

Prompt

a sad song about a mentally absent father, mental neglect, abuse

Credits

Prompt by

Fox_Net006

GeneratedFeb 17, 2026

ModelAria v5