Mercy Lane - The Empty Chair

There’s an empty chair beside the window Where you used to sit

each year The same old place beside the tree Still somehow feels

like you’re here

We don’t talk about it very much

We just leave the chair alone

But every Christmas when the lights come on

It feels a little like home

I remember how you’d tell that story

Every Christmas, every year

We’d all pretend we’d never heard it

Just to watch you laugh when you got near the end You’d

complain about the weather

Then you’d ask for something sweet

And somehow all those little things Are the things I miss the

most

these days

There’s an empty chair

But the room is not empty

There’s a voice in every story

There’s a smile in every memory

And when we gather here together

I can feel you somehow

You’re not sitting in that chair

But you’re still part of Christmas now

Someone brought your favorite dessert

And put it on the table tonight

Nobody said why we made it We just knew that it felt

right And when everybody started laughing

For a moment I could swear

I heard you laughing with us

From somewhere beyond that empty chair

Maybe love doesn’t leave the room

When somebody has to go

Maybe it just changes shape

And finds another way to show In the recipes we carry

In the songs we still sing

In the way we save a place

For someone we can’t see

(Still with us)

(Still with us)

(Still with us tonight)

There’s an empty chair

But the room is not empty

Every Christmas we remember

Every Christmas we carry

And when we gather here together

And the old songs fill the room

We know the ones we love

Can still come home to us So leave the chair beside the

window

Let the Christmas lights shine there

We don’t need to fill that empty place

Sometimes love is sitting there