[Intro - soft piano and a gentle weeping pedal steel, minor, tender]

[Verse 1 - the empty place]
There is an empty place at the table now,
A quiet where a voice would be.
We are not going to say it does not hurt,
It hurts, and the Lord can see.

[Chorus]
We sing through tears, we sing through tears,
We will not wait for the grief to dry.
The Lord is near to the broken heart,
So we lift the song and cry.

[Verse 2 - He keeps our tears]
He keeps our tears, He does not waste them,
He puts each one away.
The God who counts the falling sparrow
Counts the tears we cry today.

[Chorus]
We sing through tears, we sing through tears,
We will not wait for the grief to dry.
The Lord is near to the broken heart,
So we lift the song and cry.

[Verse 3 - we do not grieve as the hopeless]
We do not grieve the way the hopeless grieve,
We know there is a shore.
But hope has never told us not to weep,
It tells us what the weeping's for.

[Bridge - Jesus wept]
The shortest verse in all the Book
Is two words long, and true:
Jesus wept. He stood and cried
At a grave He was walking to.
He knew that He would raise the dead,
He wept beside it still.
So if the Lord could weep in hope,
Then so, in hope, we will.

[Chorus]
We sing through tears, we sing through tears,
We will not wait for the grief to dry.
The Lord is near to the broken heart,
So we lift the song and cry.

[Outro]
We sing through tears,
We sing through tears.
The song and the weeping
Both rise to His ears.