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This is our burden

The pain we endure, we must carry it together

It will soon become a memory

It's staring us in the face, but we just turn the other way

Take the easy route while millions of people's homes fall to the ground

Merciless and unforgiving as it sets us back

The truth could bury us all in the end

You and I walk carefully as we lighten our step and hope our tracks just disappear

We don't want to leave an imprint

This can't be what we're known for

I'll leave the world as it was given to me, flowing full of life and filled with diversity

I can look with pride in my child's eyes, and he will know I helped preserve what may have died

He will know what I've done

We will look ahead

The trail I've left won't lead the history books right back to me

This generation won't let it all just slip away

Don't let it slip away

I'll walk forward and sense the ground beneath me

The choice is mine

I need to make the right one

The earth may remember what we have done

The choice is mine

I need to make the right one