KRISTIN CHENOWETH - WISHING YOU WERE SOMEHOW HERE AGAIN

WISHING YOU WERE SOMEHOW HERE AGAIN

KRISTIN CHENOWETH

SONGWRITER: SARAH BRIGHTMAN

WHERE: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: COMING HOME

LABEL: CONCORD RECORDS

GENRE: POP

YEAR: 2014

Kristin Dawn Chenoweth (/ˈtʃɛnoʊwɛθ/; born Kristi Dawn Chenoweth, July 24, 1968) is an American actress and singer, with credits in musical theatre, film and television. In 1999, she won a Tony Award for her performance as Sally Brown in You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown on Broadway. In 2003, she received wide notice for originating the role of Glinda in the musical Wicked, including a nomination for another Tony. Her television roles have included Annabeth Schott in NBC's The West Wing and Olive Snook on the ABC comedy-drama Pushing Daisies, for which she won a 2009 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. Chenoweth also starred in the ABC TV series GCB in 2012.

Chenoweth sang gospel music as a child in Oklahoma and studied opera before deciding to pursue a career in musical theatre. In 1997, she made her Broadway debut in Steel Pier, winning a Theatre World Award. Besides You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Wicked, Chenoweth's stage work includes five City Center Encores! productions, Broadway's The Apple Tree in 2006, Promises, Promises in 2010 and On the Twentieth Century in 2015, as well as Off-Broadway and regional theatre productions.

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

Three long years

I've knelt in silence

Held your memory near me

Three long years

Of murmured sorrow

Willing you to hear me

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.