We were born in a dark place

Where all we could see

Were shadows that were cast on the wall.

We were born in a dark place,

Where no one is free

To escape the cold land of nightfall

But one day a Brave one,

Who few understood,

Climbed out of the home we had known

And one day a brave one

When few thought he could,

Walked out of the cave on his own

He stood in the light

And it burned at his eyes

Which knew only the dark until then

He stood in the light

And looked at the skies

And he learned about where he had been

The sun warmed his face,

And he soon learned to see

And by seeing he soon learned to know

The sun warmed his face

As he looked at the trees

And he understood what he must show

He returned to the dark place

Where everyone lived

And most of us called him a liar

He returned to the dark place

And we tried to forgive

The strange tales that he told by the fire

But slowly by slowly

He changed a few minds

And some young ones followed his lead

And slowly by slowly

They saw they’d been blind

And the children of darkness were freed

The elders were angry

They imprisoned the brave one

They said he was changing the youth

The elders were angry

And they killed the brave one

For telling the people the truth

But slowly by slowly,

More people of dark

Worked to climb into the day

And slowly by slowly

They began to embark

On following the Brave One’s way

Now we live in the light

Or so it may seem,

But some of this world still is dim

Now we live in the light,

But still some of us dream,

Of climbing out of the cave we are in