Virtue

You’re eroding the foundations

Of reality, God’s truth. 

You created a new nation

With the souls that you seduced. 

No escape from the suffering

Even though you promised none. 

You receive the moral offering

Of my righteousness undone. 

Pre-chorus

It’s honour over passion,

Purity over lust.

But virtue is love’s assassin

And virtue is above it all. 

Chorus

Exhausted from the crawling

Through the values you erode.

Love is still there, love is calling

With you I still fall in love. 

(3rd verse)

No matter how pure my love

It’s chastity you require.

Of my passion you’re above. 

And you repel my desire.