Passion Song

I was with him
when he rode into town

And crowds gathered round him
like a king

Their smiling faces,
joined a sea of branches waving

Thou they were
masquerading in the end

And my heart rose in my throat
When I heard them sing
Hosanna,
in the highest

We went upstairs,
broke the bread
and drank the wine
From the only living vine
that we would taste.

And I watch them
take him up the mountainside
Where he was crucified
though innocent.

And they mocked him,
and cursed him with their mouths
And they told him to come down
if he was God

And my heart broke in my chest
When I heard him say
"Forgive them, it is finished"

I remember in the garden
when he sweat like drops of blood.

And how he begged the father
to let him pass the cup

I can still feel the anguish
when they pierced him in the side

And how the ground beneath us supon the very moment that he died

Three days later
we found an empty grave
and the stone was rolled away
where he had been

Tears of joy streamed down my face
When the angel said

"Oh fear not, he is risen
Oh fear not, he is risen"