Lyr Req: Legacy (Rocky Zweig)

Subject: Song lyrics "Memories as they grow older"
From:
Date: 22 Mar 99 - 02:41 PM

Hi,

I'm looking for the lyrics of a song I heard while growing up. I only remember a few bits and pieces.

The song is about the Holocaust I think. If anyone can help, please respond.

Susan --------- Chorus: Memories as they grow older tend to grow colder and then disappear ..... Though you've never met me, you must remember me now that I'm gone. .... Think of the .... that you have missed. Think of the grandfather you've never kissed. .... Open your heart before it's too late.........

Subject: Lyr Add: LEGACY (Rocky Zweig)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 23 Dec 07 - 06:52 PM

Lyrics copied from a Jewish teen-oriented web site, Teen to Teen, where the editor claims to have gotten the text directly from the author. (I have found the same text at other web sites, with no attribution, under the title MEMORIES.)

LEGACY
Rocky Zweig, © 1986.

Deep in your heart is where I reside.
Listen: you'll hear all the tears that I've cried.
I am the soul of millions who died
    Before you were given your birth--
Part of your being, a piece of your past,
The women and children so brutally gassed--
This is my legacy. Please make it last.
    Go tell all the people on earth.

CHORUS: Memories as they grow older,
Tend to grow colder and then disappear
The burden is now on your shoulder.
You have a message you must make them hear.
Please never forget me.
I am a spirit that must live on.
Though you never met me,
You must remember me now that I'm gone.

Nothing has changed. I can still feel the hate.
Suffering in silence, you're tempting your fate.
You must speak out now, before it's too late.
    You can't close your eyes and pretend.
Think of the grandfather you never kissed,
All of the relatives that you have missed.
Raise up your voice, and then raise your fist,
    And tell the world "never again!"

[If you Google "Rocky Zweig legacy" (without quotes) you will find several record vendors that have sound samples.]