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 dreamed,
 somehow you would be here . . .
 Wishing I could hear your voice again . . .
 knowing that I never would . . .
 Dreaming of you won't help me to do
 all that you dreamed I could . . .
 Passing bells and sculpted angels,
 cold and monumental,
 seem, for you the wrong companions -
 you were warm and gentle . . .
 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!