Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again

Song Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
Artist Original London Cast
Album The Phantom of the Opera (Original 1986 London Cast)

Lyrics

[00:00.00] Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing
[00:09.55] Her father promised her that
[00:13.60] he would send her the angle of music
[00:20.20] Her father promised her
[00:24.06] Her father promised her
[00:32.66] You were once my one companion
[00:39.01] You were all that mattered
[00:45.07] You were once a friend and father
[00:51.36] then my world was shattered.
[00:56.97] Wishing you were somehow here again
[01:03.36] Wishing you were somehow near
[01:08.95] Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed,
[01:15.72] somehow you would be here
[01:21.22] Wishing I could hear your voice again
[01:27.31] knowing that I never would
[01:33.19] Dreaming of you won't help me to do
[01:39.03] all that you dreamed I could
[01:45.13] Passing bells and sculpted angels,
[01:52.03] cold and monumental,
[01:57.39] seem for you the wrong companions
[02:03.73] You were warm and gentle
[02:21.44] Too many years fighting back tears
[02:28.20] Why can't the past just die?
[02:33.19] Wishing you were somehow here again
[02:40.53] knowing we must say goodbye
[02:47.29] Try to forgive
[02:50.40] Teach me to live
[02:53.33] Give me the strength to try
[02:58.94] No more memories
[03:01.69] No more silent tears
[03:05.00] No more gazing across the wasted years
[03:14.88] Help me say goodbye