To Die In Vain

When they lie me in my grave Will I had done a lot of living Or will the people just look and say That I had done a lot of grieving. And on my tomb what will be wrote Will it just be a name, With words that many had spoke Saying that I had died in vain. Through a graveyard as I stroll I read many a lonesome name That's all I see that's all that is wrote I guess too, they died in vain. No living for them had they done No feats of greatness have they achieved So now they are hid beneath the sun As though they never had lived. A name on marble a heart with no soul It equals to about the same For one does die, the other survives And they both just lived in vain. A tarnished tomb I do see Forgotten by the years gone by So beside it I will kneel and pray For is that how I will die. Then the graveyard I do leave Mournful, bitter and shamed Now no longer will I sit and grieve For I WILL NOT! , die in vain. So when they lay me in the ground I now know what the people will say They all will make a joyful sound While saying, I lived and enjoyed everyday.