Do You Believe In Martyrs?

(Ian Edwards)


There were martyrs for the Cause
and there were those who chose to watch
There was new fire in their hearts
It was after this, the Wolf sought
They carried love with their belief
searching for the unity
but when national power
is held in wrong hands
its hate that has no remedy
And I say
Do you believe in martyrs?
All the blood, the persecution
Tell me why it had to be
All those soldiers with their rifles
to make the others see
When the temple was stained red
this did not stop the uphill fight they led
And they find their hearts so sore
yet free to see there's martyrs
more and more
And I say
Do you believe in martyrs?
All the blood, the persecution
Tell me why it had to be
All those soldiers with their rifles
to make the others see
Lo, the victims of a government
First Babi and then Baha'i
Love was in their disposition
Not even death could make them cry
Not even death could make them die