Maybe There's a Good Excuse for Fighting

Music: Maria zart von edler Art. By Arnolt Schlick. Sequenced by David Cooke.

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Maybe there's a good excuse for fighting; Every era has its righteous wars. Maybe wrongs require bloody righting, Or self-defense gives warriors just cause. Remember, though, the legacy of pain, Intense and passionate, a world of wounds, Agony unveiled again, again, Livid in the light of lonely rooms. Death is a relief, but think of those Alive with grief, whose loved ones lie in rows, Youth on youth in neat, well-ordered tombs.