The Love We Leave - Janis Ian

The love we leave may be forever

Only time can tell

Every memory’s a treasure

Waiting on the shelf

A bright bouquet for rainy days

When we’ve got time to dream

Never know just who we touch

With the love we leave

The hand you hold in time of trouble

Never will forget

And when that hand no longer trembles

It will pay the debt

'Til every hand of every man

Is held a hundred fold

Never know just who you touch

With the hand you hold

I wish the love I leave could be forever

In my children’s song

And in the sparkle of their children’s laughter

Long after I’m gone

Through goodbye tears and we lived heres

That make up memories

We never know just who we touch

With the love we leave

With the love we leave