Thirty, Two Chairs

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Verse

I have got a decent kitchen and a bottle of the wine
And I cook a proper dinner and I put it on a plate
And I set it at the table for myself, and it's at eight
And I eat it, and it's honestly, genuinely great
Oh, there's nobody to tell it to and nobody to wait
There are two chairs at the table and the one chair is a sign
That I bought it for a somebody, and nobody is mine
And the second chair is empty and the empty chair is fine

Chorus

It's okay, it's okay
There's a chair in every kitchen in the whole entire town
There is somebody at thirty with the same face looking down
And the wanting isn't weakness, it's the bravest thing you've known
Oh I promise you, I promise you, you are not on your own
It's okay, it's okay
You are early, you are early, that is all, and that's okay
And the rest of it is coming, it is coming, it's on its way

Verse

I am good at what I do and there is plenty I can do
And the people at the office say they're glad to have me here
And I'm grateful and I mean it and I'm having a good year
And I go home at six-fifteen and nobody is near
Oh it's nothing you'd complain of, it's the quietest of fear
It's a very tidy loneliness, it's furnished, it's brand new
It has curtains and a coffee grind and half a decent view
And it's nobody's emergency, and that's the hardest, too

Chorus

It's okay, it's okay
There's a chair in every kitchen in the whole entire town
There is somebody at thirty with the same face looking down
And the wanting isn't weakness, it's the bravest thing you've known
Oh I promise you, I promise you, you are not on your own
It's okay, it's okay
You are early, you are early, that is all, and that's okay
And the rest of it is coming, it is coming, it's on its way

Bridge

There's a person in the future who is going to know your name
They are living in a city and they're being just as kind
They are also eating dinner and they've also got a mind
That is wondering the same thing, and they're wondering behind
The exact same kind of window, and I promise you you'll find
That the thirty that you're hating is the thirty that became
The entire reason later that you knew them when they came
And the second chair was waiting, and the waiting wasn't shame