Album: other songs

Spartan

Billie Holiday on the radio/
my sluggish heart is beating seven beats too slow/
another sad song and another shot of blue/
cold and unconcerned are anything but new/
He said “Love endures all things”/
and it hurts to think He’s right/
If I mark the span of failure/
is his burden just as light?/

chorus
I am, Spartan/
close my heart so tight/
Jesus/
Save me/
from myself tonight/

Limping through the world/
there’s a knowing look or two/
is it just the cripples here/
who understand the truth?/
Why is love so painful/
why do we always lose/
paving pathways for the lost/
the bitter, and recluse?/
He said “Love endures all things”/
and it hurts to think it’s true/
did it nail Him to a cross/
did it crucify Him too?/

bridge
The angels are singing over the plains/
the shepherds are quaking, echoing refrains/
And all of our slogans designed to take away the pain/
meant nothing to the Son of God that night in Bethlehem/