Your Chair Is Still Here | Midnight Blues | Soulful Blues About Loss

Your Chair Is Still Here is an original soulful blues song from Stoic Blues, with a deep male voice and expressive guitar. A song about grief, an empty chair and the small acts that keep someone's kindness alive. 🌙 ABOUT THE SONG The absence remains. So do the things they taught us. A broken stool and a child at the door give one ordinary afternoon a different meaning. 🎵 ALBUM What Remains • Track 04 of 07 🎸 MIDNIGHT BLUES Subscribe for original dark blues, intimate stories and late night listening. 📖 LYRICS [Verse 1] Your chair is still beside the window, one worn arm toward the stove. I start to ask you about the weather, then remember what I know. Six weeks of getting out two saucers, six weeks of putting one away. The house has learned a different quiet. I haven't learned it quite that way. [Chorus] Your chair is still here. The afternoon still finds that seat. I miss the little scrape of wood when you made room for me. I won't pretend you're coming back. I wish you were, some days. Your chair is still here. The light moves on across the grain. [Verse 2] The little girl from next door knocked, her wooden stool beneath her arm. A leg had split below the socket. She said, "You used to help my mom." I found your glue behind the paint tins, the clamp with half its handle gone. I heard the way you used to tell me, "Easy now. Don't force it on." [Chorus] Your chair is still here. The afternoon still finds that seat. I miss the little scrape of wood when you made room for me. I won't pretend you're coming back. I wish you were, some days. Your chair is still here. The light moves on across the grain. [Instrumental Break] [Bridge] I almost told her, "Try tomorrow." I almost shut the door. Then I spread the paper on the table, pulled a cushion to the floor. She held the pieces while I fitted them. We waited for the glue. [Final Chorus] Your chair is still here. She sat there swinging both her feet. I showed her how to wipe the seam the way you once showed me. When she left, I cried a little. Then I swept beside the stove. Your chair is still here. Her stool went safely home. [Outro] One saucer on the table. One clean brush beside the sink. #MidnightBlues #SoulBlues #StoicBlues