Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

About the Song
This song was written by Charles Hart, R. Stilgoe, and Andrew Lloyd Webber in Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera musical and 2004 film. It's about how Christine was mourning her father's death, still seven years later, as she slowly and somberly walked through the cemetery to her father's grave.

Lyrics
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".