I stood by your grave today.
More than ten years has passed
And still I cry.
You cannot know how I miss you!

It shouldn’t have been the way it was,
But even I know how ridiculous that sounds.
Everything happens the way its meant to.
I guess the girl in me just never gives up.

I brought you red carnations.
I cleared away the dust .
How could someone who meant so much to me,
Be rendered just a name on a shiny stone in the grass.

Just when I think I’ll get over this,
I’ll hear that song again...
The one that played over and over the day you died...
"I will always love you."

It tears me apart.
I feel as though I’m losing my grip.
I hurt living without you.
You shouldn’t have gone so soon!

Sometimes I think I feel you...
And I still see you in my dreams.
It’s wonderful until I wake up,
And realize you’re not here.

I guess I’ll just get up and go now,
Cry a little more on the way home...
Try to pretend a part of me isn’t still dying inside,
Because you’re gone.
I’ll love you and miss you forever Dad.

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