Empty Chair by the Window

Lyrics

[Verse 1] There’s a crack in the porch step Where your heel used to land Your apron still hangs by the stove Like it knows you’ll come back I still pour two cups at breakfast Then I stare at the steam One goes cold in the quiet One stays there with me [Pre-Chorus] And I keep reaching for your voice In the middle of my day Like a radio half caught In a storm far away [Chorus] I miss you, Mama I miss you bad Empty chair by the window Got the best seat that I had I keep on living But it hurts like hell Since the day you left this house I lost my center rail [Verse 2] Your Bible’s worn at Psalm twenty-three By the bed where you prayed And the garden still leans to the fence Where your flowers were laid I talk to your picture some evenings Like you’re just in the next room Tell you about the kids, the weather And the bills I’m trying to move [Pre-Chorus] And some nights I swear I hear Your laugh down the hall Then the house goes back to silence And it hits me all at once [Chorus] I miss you, Mama I miss you bad Empty chair by the window Got the best seat that I had I keep on living But it hurts like hell Since the day you left this house I lost my center rail [Bridge] If love could build a ladder I’d climb it every day Bring you peaches from the county fair And ask you to stay But all I’ve got is your hard old ring And a kitchen full of rain So I hold what you left in me And I speak your name [Final Chorus] I miss you, Mama I miss you bad Empty chair by the window Got the best seat that I had I keep on living With your hands in mine Though the years keep rolling on You’re still here in my mind