Gary Lee Joyner: Priest (2011)

Original song, acoustic 12-string guitar, and voice.
Visual art by GLJ.

PRIEST
©Copyright 2007 by Gary Lee Joyner

You won't get any farther than his eyes

1. Don't expect a vision
Don't look for a cure
Rhyming childhood prayers
Won't sustain you here
The temple's gilded squalor
The altar with its stain
Books with missing pages
Torn and torn again
Walls are cracked and dripping stale wine


2. Outside women make themselves
Pale and gaunt and hollow
With long red streaks on their cheeks
They don't want a Priest to follow
One looks to music
She doesn't speak a word
One looks to the body
And blood upon the sword
Small arms fire is sounding to the east

3. A battle will be starting soon
You want someone to marry you
And when the war is over
You'll need somebody to bury you
Come back to your Priest
His door is always open
He'll take you in his arms
Whatever laws you've broken
But you won't get any farther than his eyes




Come back to your Priest
His robes are hanging open
He'll take you in his arms
Whatever laws you've broken
But you won't get any farther than his eyes
You won't get any farther than his eyes
You won't get any farther than his
I will that I want that I will that I want
You won't get any farther than his eyes

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Music

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• Gary Lee Joyner
• original song
• songwriter
• songwriting
• solo
• guitar
• 12-string