| Traveling in a dried-out country
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| On a police detail with Caesar’s army
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| I met a strange Judean -- he made a disturbance
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| And I took my men 'cause the natives were restless
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| And I said
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| Do your job 'cause the man’s outnumbered
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| We’d better go and get up there
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| Can’t you see that they’ll tear him asunder
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| You better run — you better take others.
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| I rescued the man — it was Paul
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| He goes, Please good sir, we truly must talk
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| I said, Do you speak the right language?
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| He just smiled, he came from a Benjamite family
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| But he said
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| I come from a land far from here
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| With Greek and Romanesque culture
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| Can you please let them hear me once, sir?
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| I said, All right, and let him face the mob a while
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| Lysius — that is my name
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| And that Paul he had much to say
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| He said Christianity I’m defending
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| Although I once was its grandest enemy
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| But Jesus
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| Spoke to me with a voice like thunder
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| And He did show me I’d blundered
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| Can you help, can you help but wonder
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| Why did I run from everything I was
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| (Yes, people) Listenin' to him I wondered
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| If really Paul was outnumbered
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| 'Cause if he’s right and Jesus is up there
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| He’s better off -- I’d rather take those odds
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| If you want the chapter number
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| Where we met Paul and went from there
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| In the Book of the Acts -- it’s somewhere
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| In 21 through 28 uh huh
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| (People) Listenin' to him I wondered
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| If really Paul was outnumbered
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| 'Cause if he’s right and Jesus is up there
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| He’s better off — I’d rather take those odds
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| Listenin' to him I wondered
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| If really Paul was outnumbered |