**EMPTY SEAT** **Verse 1** The sun came up like any other day Coffee on the counter, keys by the doorway A backpack by the wall, running shoes tied tight Nobody knew goodbye was hiding in plain sight Your room still looks the way you left it Pictures on the dresser, jackets in the closet We tell ourselves we'll clean it up someday But somehow it feels wrong to put those things away **Pre-Chorus** The world keeps turning like it doesn't know That ours stopped moving a long time ago **Chorus** There's an empty seat at the table tonight We still catch ourselves looking to the right Waiting for a voice that's never coming through Still saving a place in our hearts for you The years roll on but some things never change Love doesn't disappear just because it breaks Every family photo carries what can't be seen The space where you should be, the empty seat **Verse 2** Your phone number's still sitting in our contacts Sometimes grief is stubborn, sometimes it's like that A song comes on and suddenly we're there Back before the silence settled in the air Birthdays come and go, Christmas lights still shine We speak your name and laugh about another time For a moment it almost feels the same Then reality arrives and whispers why it changed **Pre-Chorus** People say healing comes with time But they don't tell you memory doesn't leave behind **Chorus** There's an empty seat at the table tonight We still catch ourselves looking to the right Waiting for a voice that's never coming through Still saving a place in our hearts for you The years roll on but some things never change Love doesn't disappear just because it breaks Every family photo carries what can't be seen The space where you should be, the empty seat **Bridge** We missed the man you were supposed to become The roads you would've traveled, the races you would've run The wedding we imagined, the family you'd create A thousand future memories that now will have to wait And that's the thing about losing someone young You don't just lose who they were You lose who they would've become **Final Chorus** There's an empty seat at the table tonight A reminder that love survives the hardest nights We carry every lesson, every laugh, every dream Every piece of you still lives inside this family Though the world moves on and the seasons change You'll always have a place no one can take And every time we gather, your memory takes its seat Right here beside us, where you'll always be **Outro** The house gets quiet when the day is through But love has a way of holding on to you So we'll tell your story every chance we get Because a life like yours is something we won't forget And there will always be An empty seat.
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