Michale Graves - The Eternal Haunting lyrics

I wish I'd been there and held you close In the darkening night when you cried out in fright I wish I'd been near the scent of your fear In the somber trees which pleaded, "Help, Please" And shouted my name but to my great shame The only reply whispered your fear Whispered your fear Sympathetic eyes now glaze with reproach Former acquaintances dare not approach Worn out and pale with compa**ion fatigue A nagging suspicion that we'd been in league Sly innuendos of fire and smoke And isn't it strange the wife never spoke? I wish that I'd been the man who said, "yes" And "I love you dear child" and "may God bless" I wish I'd said, "Stay, you don't need to go" And not been the man who always said "No" For now you are gone The silence echoes Silence echoes silently, silently The cameras came but then they went The benevolent fund was all but spent A memorial stone declares, "Never Forget!" Erected to help us not remember As each year pa**es by my grip calcifies And a love once tender withers and dies I wish that I'd been the man who said, "yes" And "I love you dear child" and "may God bless" I wish I'd said, "Stay, you don't need to go" And not been the man who always said "No" For now you are gone The silence echoes Silence echoes silently, silently Now I'm stripped naked and stood alone Sisyphus, pushing my singular stone Against the grain of common belief Determined that justice will overcome grief "Give up", "Move on", the relentless taunting "I wish, I wish", th' Eternal Haunting Eternal Haunting I wish that I'd been the man who said, "yes" And "I love you dear child" and "may God bless" I wish I'd said, "Stay, you don't need to go" And not been the man who always said "No" For now you are gone The silence echoes Silence echoes silently, silently