He's Alive

[00:24.35] The gates and doors were barred and all the windows fastened down
[00:29.55] I spent the night in sleeplessness and rose at every sound
[00:34.78] Half in hopeless sorrow and half in fear, the day
[00:39.57] Would find the soldiers breaking through to drag us all away
[00:48.36] Then just before the sunrise, I heard something at the wall
[00:53.47] The gate began to rattle, and a voice began to call
[00:58.16] I hurried to the window and looked down to the street
[01:03.22] Expecting swords and torches and the sound of soldiers feet
[01:13.01] But there was no one there but Mary, so I went down to let her in
[01:18.45] John stood there beside me as she told us where she'd been
[01:23.24] She said, "They moved him in the night and none of us knows where
[01:28.58] Oh, the stones been rolled away, and now his body isn't there"
[01:35.55] So we both ran toward the garden, then John ran on ahead
[01:40.89] We found the stone and the empty tomb just the way that Mary said
[01:45.72] But the winding sheet they wrapped him in was just an empty shell
[01:50.98] And how or where they'd taken him, it was more than I could tell
[02:00.83] Perhaps something strange had happened there, just what I did not know
[02:06.28] John believed a miracle, but I just turned to go
[02:10.45] Circumstance and speculation couldn't lift me very high
[02:15.83] 'Cause I'd seen them crucify Him and then saw Him die
[02:26.07] Back inside the house again, the guilt and anguish came
[02:31.37] Everything I'd promised Him just added to my shame
[02:35.55] When at last it came to choices, I denied I knew His name
[02:42.37] And even if He was alive, it could never be the same
[02:51.96] Then suddenly the air was filled with a strange and sweet perfume
[02:56.95] Light that came from everywhere drove shadows from the room
[03:02.06] Then Jesus stood before me with His arms held open wide
[03:07.92] And I fell down on my knees and clung to Him and cried
[03:16.99] Then He raised me to my feet and as I looked into His eyes
[03:22.43] Love was shining out from Him like sunlight from the sky
[03:27.25] Guilt and my confusion disappeared in sweet release
[03:32.24] And every fear I'd ever had just melted into peace
[03:41.08] 'Cause He is (alive and alive, He's alive, alive, and alive, He's alive)
[03:48.43] (Alive and alive, He's alive, He's alive)
[03:52.82] He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven
[04:00.24] Heavens gates are open wide
[04:02.60] He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven
[04:10.38] Heavens gates are open wide
[04:12.87] He's alive (He's alive), He's alive (He's alive), He's alive (He's alive), and I'm forgiven
[04:20.22] Heavens gates are open wide
[04:23.03] He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven
[04:30.12] Heavens gates are open wide
[04:33.12] He's alive
[04:35.49] He's alive (He's alive), He's alive (He's alive), He's alive (He's alive), and I'm forgiven
[04:42.91] Heavens gates are open wide
[04:45.53] He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven (He's alive)
[04:53.07] Heavens gates are open wide
[04:55.35] He's alive
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