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Like A Pale Martyr

from Holy Land Revisited by 'Les Paul's' (The Paul's)

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Like A Pale Martyr

You never knew your mother
It’s so sad but it’s true
You were born to suffer
Like many others too
Struggling to make it through

Just like a pale martyr
In his shirt of fire
Like a pale martyr
Burning with desire

See the cities burning
The water’s rising too
This hell on earth’s turning
The sun black above you
Down here there’s nothing new

But for this pale martyr
In his shirt of fire
For this pale martyr’s
Burning with desire

You’re no stranger to sorrow
When love and truth have died
Don’t look to tomorrow
It’s a jungle full of lies
Waiting with shallow eyes

Just for a pale martyr
In his shirt of fire
For a pale martyr
Burning with desire

So many rooms without books
Like bodies without souls
So many vacant blank looks
Like eyes in deep black holes
It is for you that the bell toils

Fire’s burning since day one
Is brighter than the sun
Fanned with knives and smoking guns
The war is never done
There’s only one place left to run

Just like a pale martyr
In his shirt of fire
Like a pale martyr
Burning with desire

Rotten apples have to fall
They crash down in disgrace
Youth thrown against the wall
But all can be replaced
An arm, a leg, a face

But for a pale martyr
In his shirt of fire
But a pale martyr
Burning with desire

‘Yes I’m as guilty as you’
Said He from on the cross
‘For the good I didn’t do’
Without profit there’s no loss
Every price has its cost

So like a pale martyr
In his shirt of fire
So a pale martyr
Burning with desire

Envy’s the ulcer of the soul
Hate a cancer to the brain
Without love you are not whole
Love makes a wild animal tame
It is for this I came

Just like a pale martyr
In his shirt of fire
Just like a pale martyr
Burning with desire

Paul Robert Thomas

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from Holy Land Revisited, released March 31, 2017
Music composed, performed, mixed & mastered by Paul Odiase, lyrics by Paul Robert Thomas – ‘Les Paul’s’ (The Paul’s) (as both lads are named ‘Paul’).

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'Les Paul's' (The Paul's) London, UK

'Les Paul's' (The Paul's) are a prolific dynamic song writing duo of ex-Londoners, singer songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, composer and actor Paul Odiase and song lyricist Paul Robert Thomas. Check them out at www.facebook.com/LesPaulsThePauls and their new interview at realmusichype.com/interview-with-les-pauls-the-pauls

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