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

• published: 05 Jan 2012
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