Darrell Scott - Lazarus Dies Again lyrics
[Darrell Scott - Lazarus Dies Again lyrics]
Rise up Lazarus, get out of that grave
Rise and shine Lazarus
Clean up and get a shave martha is weeping
She's been gnashing her teeth
Can't you hear her wailing
Rise up and stop her grief
Oh the dogs are sniffing
The children are scared
Now, Martha is laughing "brother
You've been spared" she's cooking a goat
Calling all of her friends
Oh rise up Lazarus and live again
(again, again)
Rise up, rise up
He's a local celebrity they
All buy him drinks
He's an authority on death they
Ask him what he thinks
Oh did you see my mother there?
Or see a great white light?
Did you fight with the devil
On that eternal night?
He goes on a lecture circuit
Hosts his own TV show
Has his pick of beautiful
Women wherever he goes
He advises politicians, he dines with kings
Gets a record deal and he starts to sing
(and sing, and sing)
Rise up, rise up (Rise up) rise up, rise up
Rise up Lazarus
Then Jesus gets in trouble and
He goes to trial
Lazarus he gets wind and lays low for a while
The network pulls the plug
The record deal heads south
He hides out in the
Cave behind Martha's house
And they weep
They cry and they moan for their friend
All the lies the injustice and
How he meets his end
Yeah they cry for a while
Then he starts to grin
"My God Martha, he's gonna rise again
(again, again)
Rise up, rise up rise up, rise up
After the burial they just move away
Get an apartment in Cairo and
Live out their days
He works on chariots and keeps
His secret well hid
And never ever talks about what Jesus did
And the years roll along
They both get on the pension
And he often sit's and thinks
Of his former attention
And on the night he lay dying
He calls out to his friend
"Oh Jesus can you hear me?"
Then Lazarus dies again
Rise up rise up, rise up
Rise up, rise up
Rise and shine Lazarus
Clean up and get a shave martha is weeping
She's been gnashing her teeth
Can't you hear her wailing
Rise up and stop her grief
Oh the dogs are sniffing
The children are scared
Now, Martha is laughing "brother
You've been spared" she's cooking a goat
Calling all of her friends
Oh rise up Lazarus and live again
(again, again)
Rise up, rise up
He's a local celebrity they
All buy him drinks
He's an authority on death they
Ask him what he thinks
Oh did you see my mother there?
Or see a great white light?
Did you fight with the devil
On that eternal night?
He goes on a lecture circuit
Hosts his own TV show
Has his pick of beautiful
Women wherever he goes
He advises politicians, he dines with kings
Gets a record deal and he starts to sing
(and sing, and sing)
Rise up, rise up (Rise up) rise up, rise up
Rise up Lazarus
Then Jesus gets in trouble and
He goes to trial
Lazarus he gets wind and lays low for a while
The network pulls the plug
The record deal heads south
He hides out in the
Cave behind Martha's house
And they weep
They cry and they moan for their friend
All the lies the injustice and
How he meets his end
Yeah they cry for a while
Then he starts to grin
"My God Martha, he's gonna rise again
(again, again)
Rise up, rise up rise up, rise up
After the burial they just move away
Get an apartment in Cairo and
Live out their days
He works on chariots and keeps
His secret well hid
And never ever talks about what Jesus did
And the years roll along
They both get on the pension
And he often sit's and thinks
Of his former attention
And on the night he lay dying
He calls out to his friend
"Oh Jesus can you hear me?"
Then Lazarus dies again
Rise up rise up, rise up
Rise up, rise up