The hands you're holdin' now, if you remember<br />
Are the very hands that gave you you're first rose<br />
They're reachin' out for one last dyin' ember<br />
In the ashes of the love that's lost it's glow<br />
<br />
But if you don't want me I won't try to keep you<br />
But there's just the smallest chance you may be wrong, so wrong, so wrong<br />
Until you sure I hope you'll never let go<br />
Of the hands that you've been holdin' for so long<br />
<br />
I can't forget the first time that I kissed you<br />
It's the sweetest fellin' I have ever known<br />
But every dream, they say, must have an ending<br />
And you leave the hands you're holding for so long<br />
<br />
But if you don't want me I won't try to keep you<br />
But there's just the smallest chance you may be wrong, so wrong, so wrong<br />
Until you sure I hope you'll never let go<br />
Of the hands that you've been holdin' for so long