Outside the restaurant where we used to see Each other eye to eye and knee to knee The colder weather keeps our table free If I was there I know you wouldn't be But no-one else is either So they won't miss you and me It's just a place where you and I once met With nothing to get over or forget The warmer weather filled the open air With half a fun-fair, half a thoroughfare And you leaned back in laughter [male singer: ] With your lovely shoulders bare [female singer: ] Looking far too cool to care An empty table Where we were face to face It was our go-between The air above it was our breathing space And now the rain has washed it clean Where we broke bread, not a fragment to be seen Not a crumb, not a trace of crust Just An empty table One empty table more Than I ever bargained for There were crowds who came to watch the river While we watched them as if they'd be there forever I can't forget all that as I walk past I try to underplay the overcast By calling solitude my great romance And being glad no-one can see me glance At an empty table And the glance become a stare and the stare become a trance But crowds are always melting in the cold In that respect the opposite of ice And folding chairs, well, what they do is fold They do it once and they can do it twice And they will soon be back if we're together when It's warm enough to sit outside again And all the world flows by, not just the solitary men Who stop as if they see themselves when they were not alone and then They see us looking back and walk away Outside the restaurant where we used to see Each other eye to eye and knee to knee The colder weather keeps our table free
