Stone Mountain lyrics

This pluton of Georgia's might

A quartz monzonite dome alone

Stands in vigilance to eons ago

Enduring in natural majesty

Great men of The Confederacy

Memorialized by The South;

Jefferson Davis and Blackjack

Robert E. Lee with Traveler

Stonewall Jackson on Little Sorrel

But what was once a relic of history

That held a healing cause in loss

And gave importance to being

Now finds itself in siege yet again

Peace can only be maintained so

When men remember its value

And all that gave it cause to end

Five years of civil unrest here

Are a few so foolish to believe

That erasing history's slate

Will wash away truths unbearable

Making living with themselves impossible

There is no measure of sacrifice

Nor its precious value remembered

If even respect for the vanquished is forsaken

The victors are lesser, and so their ideals

There are those who would do anything

To erase a past they so detest

Or hatred loaned from dead days

That befouls men not given so

There are lessons to learn

And to remember ever more

Lest mistakes suffered then

Give cause to destruction again

No clutter made to dissuade

Could render the facts made clear

Except to rekindle hatred's flame

By the same oppression created before

If there is a need, an impulsive desire

That must prove its validation true

Then let it find another venue sacred

Let the world view steadfast veracity

Only they who feel insignificant

Belie democracy's eternal toil

Attempting to scrub away history

And give strife cause to stir again

The earth's memory is long

And mens' attention span, short

So cast in stone a chapter closed

Recalling a distance traveled, not seen

• Artist:Ww Ww