The Chair Across the Table

Verse 1

The chair across the table stays empty

Morning light falls where you used to sit

I saved your coat by the hallway mirror

Your coffee cup still humming with the quiet of it

Pre-Chorus

And I keep the lamp on

Hoping somehow you find your way

Past the river

Past the turning of the day

Chorus

Oh I miss the weight of you beside me

The low laugh that carried through the hall

There's a hollow where your voice once echoed

And the silence is the loudest of them all

(Of them all)

Post-Chorus

Stay with me

Stay with me

Verse 2

I found your book with the bent-down pages

A pressed leaf resting where you stopped to dream

The garden grows the way you tended it

But the hands that taught it tremble now unseen

Pre-Chorus

And I count the hours

Slow as water wearing stone

Every morning

I wake up alone

Chorus

Oh I miss the weight of you beside me

The low laugh that carried through the hall

There's a hollow where your voice once echoed

And the silence is the loudest of them all

(Of them all)

Post-Chorus

Stay with me

Stay with me

Bridge

Some days I swear I hear the floorboard give

Some nights I reach for warmth that isn't there

Grief is a room I keep on living in

With nothing left to hold

Nothing left to share

Chorus

Oh I miss the weight of you beside me

The low laugh that carried through the hall

There's a hollow where your voice once echoed

And the silence is the loudest of them all

(Of them all)

Post-Chorus

Stay with me

Stay with me

(Stay with me)