Franciscans are people and groups (religious orders) who adhere to the teachings and spiritual disciplines of St Francis of Assisi and of his main associates and followers, such as St Clare of Assisi, St Anthony of Padua, and St Elizabeth of Hungary, among many others. The term is usually applied to members who also adhere to the Roman Catholic Church. However, other denominations also have members who describe themselves as Franciscans. They include Old Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran. Franciscans observants in Poland and Lithuania are known as Bernardines, after Bernardino of Siena, although the term elsewhere refers to Cistercians instead.
The Franciscan Order is also sometimes referred to as the Seraphic Order.
There are three main orders of Catholic Franciscans, with their subdivisions.
You know I can't believe you,
all the things you say,
they're not true. [oh oh oh]
But I fear I can't just leave you.
All I feel is that I need you my love.
This is all my spirit can take,
anymore and I will surley meet decay.
Won't you reach out and touch my heartache,
feel it beating, please don't throw it away.
I can't believe your careless lies,
your burning eyes, pass through me.
I never thought our love would die,
but how could I, I could not see.
Baby girl you know I need you,
can't believe that you would leave me this way.
If my pain will not appease you,
so it please you I've got nothing to say.
I now begin to realise,
you're not the girl I once knew.
But deep beneath those hollow eyes,
reasons that dieing part of you, of you.
I will cry, cry for you, for you, I will cry, cry for you.
curtains drawn you shut the moon out,
as though it were bright as sun in the day.
As we crawl through the dementia in your head,
you would show me a way.
I can't believe your careless lies,
your burning eyes, pass through me.
I never thought our love would die,
but how could I, I could not see.
See for you,
I will cry, cry for you, for you,
I will cry, cry for you, for you,
I will cry, cry for you, for you,
I will cry, cry for you, for you,