Living On lyrics

Once they were all around us

Touching those they never knew

In the prime of life, its dramas

Careers of emotion, of values

Cultural envoys then reflecting

Elicitors of tears, sorrow and joy

Comforting the frailties of living

And interrupting the blandness

But time has gone on unrelenting

And taken their souls unsettled

Still their voices, their images stay

They live on beyond them e'er so

A realization final overtakes us

That unfolded shows itself too

Reconciling these years accrued

To know its value, conceive its cost

Knowing the loss of our mentors

Valuing their efforts given freely

Learned late in life, a measure

For every precious pricelessness