Mountain -

The mountain rose from bonds of earth and showed that all could rise

Some men learned, while others saw with only hungry eyes

And as the prize they conquered, like a bride without her gown

One by one, they mined its bones and dragged the mountain down

They built a grand cathedral in the image of the mount

The grace was lost on hungry men who feared to be without

And as the bombs fell from the air and shattered in the town

One by one, they broke its bones and dragged the mountain down

So I see the mountain in this wall of weathered stone

I read the names of hungry men who lie in fields unsown

Rise up had been the lesson, but we put them in the ground

One by one, we laid their bones and dragged the mountain down

One by one, we laid their bones and dragged the mountain down