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I’d Like To Be A Martyr Lyrics by Graham Kendrick

Bright Side Up

1973

[Verse 1]
I'd like to be a martyr if it didn’t hurt too much
But I know I couldn't make it if I tried
I'd like to be a Christian if He didn’t take too much
But I know I'd want my ego to survive
[Chorus]
Don't get mad, don't get mad
Oh I can see your eyes are sad Lord
Maybe I don't understand your ways
I don't want to take and leave you
And occasionally believe you
That's not the kind of loving that you need
[Verse 2]
I'd like to feel that had I been a sailor by that sea
I’d have left it all behind when you walked by
But Peter bore a cross, they say a cross held Peter high
Just before he sailed your ocеan in the sky
[Chorus]
Don’t get mad, don't get mad
Oh I can see your еyes are sad Lord
Maybe I don’t understand your ways
I don't want to take and leave you
And occasionally believe you
That's not the kind of loving that you need
[Verse 3]
But lay me down in jail and I will rise up high
You will never keep the Spirit in me down
Jesus paid my bail and there's no jailer can prevail
Upon His deep and peaceful palace in my mind
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Graham Kendrick

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"I’d Like To Be A Martyr" appears on "Bright Side Up" in 1973.

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