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See all the columns, people who pay in

Their money to hear you play, seventy songs so far

The public relate to the prophet the critics upraise

Your status has grown and now wherever you go

What you are you can see in the faces of those

Whose political drug can be found in the words that you sing

Uptown martyrs, say it for me

Uptown martyrs, that's what I be

So far, we're going far, I can say

If you stay, stick with me I will show you the way

You're well aware, you're not alone, nor are you mean

Yet people draw comparisons with you and James Dean

It's revelation time, they've come for their king

You're giving your everything being yourself

And everyone's trying to see someone else

You're the one to watch, yeah, you're a name

Uptown martyrs, say it for me

Uptown martyrs, that's what I be

So far, we're going far, I can say

If you stay, stick with me I will show you the way

Uptown martyrs, say it for me

Uptown martyrs, that's what I be

There are nights on your own

In some lonely bars

When reflecting ideals of all your public

Say you are

And the time they're wasting on the wrong track

Someday you know they'll put a knife

Into your back

And the way the world is in need of a change

If people only tried to get it in their brains

It's all for all, an' all of us for one

And solidarity's the only social gun