Empty Chair at the Table

[Verse 1]
Your coffee cup
Still on the shelf
I touch the handle
Then blame myself
Sunday calls
Just quiet air
I reach for my phone
You’re not there
[Chorus]
Now there’s an empty chair at the table
And I’m sitting here
Feeling unstable
I’m so lost
So lost
Since you went away
Every laugh
Every fight
Every story you’d say
I replay them all
But I can’t make you stay
Empty chair at the table
And I don’t know how to pray
[Verse 2]
I hear your keys
In my mind at night
Your “call me back”
Still flashing in the light
Could I have done more
Stayed one more day
That little doubt
Never fades away
[Chorus]
Now there’s an empty chair at the table
And I’m sitting here
Feeling unstable
I’m so lost
So lost
Since you went away
Every laugh
Every fight
Every story you’d say
I replay them all
But I can’t make you stay
Empty chair at the table
And I don’t know how to pray
[Bridge]
But you’re in the way I fold my hands (yeah)
In the way I try to understand
Every joke I tell
I hear you laugh
You’re the best part of my past
If love could’ve kept you here
You’d still be right beside me
So I’ll carry you in every tear
Till the day your eyes find me (oh)
[Chorus]
There’s still an empty chair at the table
But your love holds me when I’m unstable
I’m so lost
So lost
Since you went away
But your words
Your touch
They still light my way
I replay them all
And I hear you say
“I’m right here
I’m right here
I never really strayed”
Empty chair at the table
But your love is here to stay

Live R&B ballad with male vocals, warm Rhodes and soft bass in a slow, swaying pocket. Verses stay intimate with close-mic vocal and subtle rimshots; chorus blooms with organ pads, call-and-response backing harmonies, and a few gospel-tinged ad-libs. Bridge lifts in intensity with a key change and sustained notes, then drops back to a hush for the final hook and a lingering piano outro., sad, r&b, male vocals