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    The dogs are sniffing, the children are scared  Now, Martha is laughing "brother you've been spared"  She's cooking a goat, calling all 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  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 T.V. show  Has his pick of women wherever he goes  He advises politicians, he dines with kings  Gets a record deal and he starts to sing (and sing, and sing)    Then Jesus gets in trouble and goes to trial  Lazarus 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 moan for their friend  All the lies the injustice and how he meets his end  They cry for a while then he starts to grin  "My God Martha, he's gonna rise again (again, again)    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 talks about what Jesus did  The years roll along, they both get on the pension    And he often thinks of his former attention  On the night he lay dying he calls out to his friend  "Oh Jesus can you hear me?"  Then Lazarus dies again    these lyrics are submitted by burkul