My Little Les Misérables (Mes Petits Misérables)

Chapter 15

Turning Lyrics (Pony Version)

Did you see them going off to fight?

Foals of the barricade 

Who didn't last the night 

Did you see them lying where they died?

Somepony to cradle them

And kiss them when they cried

Did you see them lying side by side?

Who will wake them? 

Nopony ever will

Nopony ever told them that a summer day can kill?

They were schoolcolts 

Fighting for a new world 

That would rise up like the sun

Where's that new world

Now that the fighting's done?

Nothing changes, nothing ever will

Every year, another muzzle to fill

Same old story, what's the use of tears?

What's the use of praying

If nopony hears?

Turning, turning, turning, turning, turning 

Through the years

Turning, turning, turning through the years

Minutes into hours and the hours into years

Nothing changes, nothing ever can

Round and round the roundabout

And back where you began!

Round and round and back to where you began! 

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Empty Chairs at Empty Tables Lyrics 

There's a grief that can't be spoken

There's a pain that 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 Equestria reborn 

And they rose with their voices ringing 

And I can hear them now

The very words that they have 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 

And there's a pain that goes on and on 

Phantom faces at The window 

Phantom shadows on the floor

Empty chairs at empty tables