The hands I'm holding now if you remember

Are the very hands that gave me my first rose

They're reaching out for one last dying ember

In the ashes of a love that's lost its glow

But if you don't want me I won't try to keep you

But there's just smallest chance you may be wrong

Until you're sure I hope you'll never let go

Of the hands that you've been holding for so long

[ steel ]

Did God mean I could keep you for a lifetime or did he mean for just a year or two

And if it's meant that I should have to lose you

Then what's these hands you're holding gonna do

But if you don't want me...