There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on
Empty chairs at empty tables
Now my friends are dead and gone

Here they talked of coming Threadfalls
Here it was they lit their flame
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came.

From the table in the corner
They could see all Pern reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
I can hear them now!
The very words that they had sung
Became their last memorial
On the lonely dragonwings
At dawn...

Oh my friends, my friends forgive me.
That I live and you are gone
There's a grief that can't be spoken
There's a pain goes on and on

Phantom faces in the cavern
Phantom shadows on the floor
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will meet no more.

Oh my friends, my friends, don't ask me
What your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friends will sing no more...

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