Empty chairs

Yeah…
Late nights, staring at the ceiling fan spin,
Thinking ‘bout the people that I never see again.
Same old street but the faces all gone,
Used to hear laughter, now it’s just one song.
Grandma in the kitchen, Sunday morning smell,
Now the house quiet, feels like living in a shell.
Friends turned ghosts, yeah they faded with time,
Some to the grave, some just crossed that line.

We was riding bikes, talking dreams in the dark,
Now I’m lighting candles just to leave a little spark.
Got a phone full of numbers I can’t even call,
Funny how the loudest memories hurt the most of all.

Chorus
I got empty chairs at the table tonight,
Too many names that I still hold tight.
Lost some to heaven, lost some to the pain,
Lost some walking roads I won’t see again.
If you hear me now, yeah I’m saying your name,
Through the tears and the years, it ain’t never the same.
I keep moving on but I’m carrying y’all,
Every step I take, I can still hear the call.

Verse 2
My brother ain’t my brother like he used to be,
Same blood, different life, different energy.
We used to stand side by side no fear,
Now we talk once a year, if we talk at all here.
Lost a homie to the streets, lost one to the pills,
Lost one to the silence he was too strong to feel.
People say time heals, I don’t know if it’s true,
Time just teaches how to live missing you.

Got a hoodie from my dad that I never throw away,
Smells like memories I don’t got words to say.
Every scar got a story, every tear got a face,
Every prayer got a name that I still can’t replace.

Chorus
I got empty chairs at the table tonight,
Too many names that I still hold tight.
Lost some to heaven, lost some to the pain,
Lost some walking roads I won’t see again.
If you hear me now, yeah I’m saying your name,
Through the tears and the years, it ain’t never the same.
I keep moving on but I’m carrying y’all,
Every step I take, I can still hear the call.

Verse 3
Sometimes I laugh then I hate that I do,
‘Cause I remember all the laughs I had with you.
Life keep moving, it don’t stop for grief,
Just another hard lesson, just another lost piece.
I still talk to the sky when the night get cold,
Like you somewhere listening to the words I told.
If there’s a place past the hurt, past the rain,
Hope you all there smiling without no pain.

I ain’t perfect, I done drifted away too,
Lost some people ‘cause I ain’t know what to do.
If I could go back, I’d hold on tight,
Tell every single one I love ‘em that night.

Final Chorus
I got empty chairs at the table tonight,
But your memories sitting in the light.
Even gone, y’all still part of my name,
Every loss, every scar, every bit of the pain.
So I live for the ones that I can’t see no more,
Carry every voice like a weight in my core.
Till the day that I fade and my story end,
I’ll be looking for my family…
I’ll be looking for my friends.

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