Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

You were once my one companion

You were all that mattered

You were once a friend and father

Then my world was shattered

Wishing you were somehow here again

Wishing you were somehow near

Sometimes it seemed if I just dream

Somehow you would be here

Wishing I could hear your voice again

Knowing that I never could

Dreaming of you won't help me to do

All that I dreamed I could

Three long years I've knelt in silence

Held your memory near me

Three long years of murmured sorrow

Willing you to hear me

Too many years fighting back tears

Why can't the past just die?

Wishing you were somehow here again

Knowing we must say goodbye

Try to forgive (teach me to live)

Give me the strength to try

No more memories (no more silent tears)

No more gazing across the wasted years

Help me say goodbye

Help me say goodbye