Lucky Like St. Sebastian-Momus

[ti:Lucky Like St. Sebastian] [ar:Momus] [al:Circus Maximus] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Lucky Like St. Sebastian - Momus [00:19.46]Once upon a time there was a man called Saul [00:21.81]Who persecuted Christians until he saw [00:24.54]The work was bearing fruit for the Christians [00:26.63]So the man changed his opinions [00:28.21]And his Christian name to Paul [00:29.73] [00:32.18]And he wrote important chapters in the Bible [00:34.48]But the blood on his writing [00:36.16]Hand reeked to high heaven [00:37.74] [00:38.75]And Paul resolved to die [00:40.37] [00:42.41]So he wrote to friends in Rome [00:44.12]A senator who owed him a favour [00:45.57] [00:46.66]Asking for an executioner [00:48.18] [00:49.05]So Paul could make his exit as a martyr [00:51.23] [00:51.76]The senator sent this answer: [00:53.59] [00:55.51]He said Should you be [00:57.83]So lucky like St Sebastian [00:59.83] [01:01.54]Preferring the ache to the aspirin [01:02.99] [01:04.03]Swooning as they shoot the arrows [01:06.77]Through your narrow chest [01:08.56]Stripping naked in the Circus Maximus [01:11.05] [01:11.68]With a martyr eating lioness [01:14.04] [01:14.87]Bartering with flesh for a little pain [01:17.67] [01:20.17]Scenes like this give [01:21.59]Sadomasochism a bad name [01:24.24] [01:44.53]Once there was a man who [01:45.59]Loved a woman too much [01:46.43]To give up hope when he saw she [01:48.69]Wouldn't touch him with a barge pole [01:50.26] [01:50.80]He spent his whole life in the Inferno [01:53.05]He composed in thirty four cantos [01:55.21]O Dante though I'm anti [01:58.70]Such romantic speculation [02:00.13]I'm your hypocrite reader [02:01.43]In the same situation [02:02.93]I'm your double oh me [02:05.00]I'm your brother in pain [02:06.39] [02:08.14]But Alighieri if you'll [02:09.28]Listen there's a difference [02:10.28] [02:10.88]Between your Beatrice and my Paula [02:13.36]She's anonymous and now a waitress [02:16.11]It's comic but not divine [02:17.91] [02:19.28]The tragedy is no one's dying [02:21.03] [02:22.09]Should I be so lucky like St Sebastian [02:26.37] [02:27.80]Going out with a bang just hear me [02:30.30] [02:31.02]Whimpering with joy as Mr Death [02:34.10]Receives his blue eyed boy [02:35.79] [02:38.82]Surrender unto Caesar or to [02:41.02]God it makes no odds [02:42.83] [02:44.10]There's just one thing the [02:45.42]Martyr wants to say: [02:46.99] [02:49.17]He says Tell me Mrs Lincoln [02:51.56] [02:53.82]Did you enjoy the play