Matthew, Mark, Luke & John - Fairport Convention, David Rea

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Come down and show us what’s wrong

When every word’s been sung or spoken

And bygone battles have been lost or won

When all is mended that once was broken

Who crawled will surely run

And when all our creeds and all of our deeds

Are centered on each other’s needs

When men are mending harmonies

The world will have begun

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Are you really real, do you love every one?

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Come down and show us what’s wrong

If the sins of the father are also the son’s

What chance do we have in this game

Everything’s blacker, we argue with guns

With money we burn and we maim

And is it all for a reason, this game without end

To be rich, you have to have poor

And is feasting to famine like sitting to standing

Or is there a hole in God’s door?

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Are you really real, do you love every one?

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Come down and show us what’s wrong

Matthew, Mark, Luke and Paul

Are your fingers in your ears, can you hear us at all

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John

Come down and show us what’s wrong