Oh Calvary!

music and lyrics by Bernard Hull

VERSE 1:

With every lash upon Your back,

In each excruciating track,

A wondrous power is revealed,

You paid the price, now I am healed.

CHORUS:

Oh Calvary , Oh gift of life,

A paradox of love and strife,

You gave us all You had to give,

You bled and died so we might live.

VERSE 2:

Weighed down by sin you’d never known,

Absorbing every insult thrown,

The cross was more than You could bear,

So Simon took Your burden there.

CHORUS:

VERSE 3:

With every nail, as it was driven,

You cried out, “Father, please forgive,

For they don’t know what they have done.”

We crucified God’s Holy Son.

CHORUS:

VERSE 4:

Your mother Mary stood beneath,

So overwhelmed with pain and grief,

You spoke to her, and then to John,

You gave them strength to carry on.

CHORUS:

BRIDGE:

And as You took my sinful place,

Your Father turned his face,

And painfully you cried, “Why?”

And as the world heard Your last breath,

An earthquake marked Your death.

And darkness shrouded the sky.

VERSE 5:

Your side was pierced, Your lifeblood flowed,

With that, You paid the price we owed,

But even that was not the end,

You conquered death and rose again.

CHORUS (x2):

CODA:

You bled and died so we might live.

© Copyright 2008 Bernard Hull
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