Lazarus come forth No need to be afraid Press or pundits, Lords or Kings Yes you can be remade Many ways to resurrect you History is our best sport You won't recognize the man you were Ah Lazarus come forth Lazarus come forth We have the PR men Brighten up your tarnished image, make you clean again You won't recognize yourself What they despise now they'll now adore All this for just one fee Ah Lazarus come forth Lazarus the price of this rewrite of your misdeeds Is that your body dies We just deal with commentaries Lazarus come forth We deal in contradictions Symbols we mistake for real Private truth and public fiction Ways to weave a storyline round you in a martyrs coat Paint you brighter than you ever were Ah Lazarus come forth Lazarus come forth It's part of you we need To justify within ourselves the politics of greed Knowing that the likes of you could die and still be more May our sins be cleansed just as yours were Ah Lazarus come forth Lazarus come forth Lazarus come forth