Empty Tables
by Joan-Violet Stretch
Title
Empty Tables
Artist
Joan-Violet Stretch
Medium
Photograph - Black And White Photography
Description
The River Ouse in the city of York and a restaurant with al fresco dining at the Riverside in view of the old stone bridge over the river...just an hour previously people were happily dining here, it was lovely and sunny, then suddenly it rained..therefore the empty tables, the wide angled setting bought all the tables into view, then a thought struck me, this title and the sombre atmosphere due to the miserable weather reminded me of The Musical, Les Miserables and a song performed of the same name, I then remembered the voice of Michael Ball and Alfie Boe singing this song and the song echoed in my head as I gazed upon this picture:
Empty Tables, Empty Tables
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 revolution.
Here it was they lit the flame.
Here they sang about tomorrow
And tomorrow never came.
From the table in the corner
They could see a world reborn
And they rose with voices ringing
And I can hear them now!
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
On this lonely barricade 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 at the windows.
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
These words really animate the picture
and the monochrome tones add to the sombreness
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January 9th, 2014
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