Must our virtues be buried as well He wanted to sleep further up the trail It would be safer, where values can be praised without pain But where violent paths cross, a woman would give herself up Even to a man she could never love, so she can live Is it the same for a nation Do we owe it to someone to live by absolutes Even though what is written changes And what is not written is immutable If we save a man, are we responsible for him? If we **** a man, will we forget him? A people of differences must believe in something to survive If we are hunted like animals, must we become animals? Must we become thieves and murderers? And what becomes of our memory What kind of people were we What would they say of us after we are gone That we lived burying our morals Or that we died giving them to a man that lives As we walk upon the ground that cares not for us And as we see the seasons change without need of us It is up to us to cultivate the praises of love and honor Will the water be as clear as tears that remember sadness Will the water be as ***** as anger that avenges without remorse As stones gather for the feast of judgment before sin Then we will know what they will say about us It will be written that we softened the stones, building a new path The same as the path carved into our own hearts By the words we have read by those who passed before us Knowing that we will not burn books in favor of existence Instead we will add a new chapter that demands to be heard And our virtues will live instead of dying along with our past