I'd Like To Be A Martyr by Graham Kendrick

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I'd Like To Be A Martyr
by Graham Kendrick

I'd like to be a Martyr if it didn't hurt too much
But I know I wouldn't make it if I tried
I'd like to be a Christian if he didn't take too much
But I know I want my ego to survive

Don't get mad, don't get mad, O 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

I'd like to think that had I been a sailor on that sea
I'd have left it all behind when you walked by
But Peter wore a cross they say, a cross held Peter high
Just before he sailed your ocean in the sky.....

So 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....