Empty Chairs

[Verse 1]
Magazines with bent corners
Date on the wall goes stale
My shoe keeps tapping the tile
Your name is a paper trail

A baby coughs in the corner
A watch ticks loud in my head
The fish tank circles nothing
Blue glow on the plastic chairs

[Pre-Chorus]
I keep staring at the door
Every time it opens
It’s never for me

[Chorus]
Empty chairs, empty chairs
My heart learns slow
Empty chairs, empty chairs
We’re still on hold
Say your name, say your name
Let me hear it now
Empty chairs, empty chairs
Don’t leave me hanging

[Verse 2]
Coffee gone cold in the lid
My fingers know every crack
A nurse calls three names at once
Then the hall goes flat and black

I read the same form again
Lose my place at line two
The clock gives up on moving
I keep one eye on you

[Pre-Chorus]
I keep staring at the door
Every time it opens
It’s never for me

[Chorus]
Empty chairs, empty chairs
My heart learns slow
Empty chairs, empty chairs
We’re still on hold
Say your name, say your name
Let me hear it now
Empty chairs, empty chairs
Don’t leave me hanging

[Bridge]
When you finally call us back
I’ll stand up too fast
Paper in my shaking hands
Trying to make it last

[Final Chorus]
Empty chairs, empty chairs
My heart learns slow
Empty chairs, empty chairs
We’re still on hold
Say your name, say your name
Let me hear it now
Empty chairs, empty chairs
Don’t leave me hanging