“Would You Crucify Him?”

Words and Music by John Michael Talbot
on Firewind

Copyright 1979

Sometimes in the cool of the evening
The truth comes like a lover through the wind
Sometimes though my thoughts have gone misleading
She’ll ask that same old question once again

(Chorus)
Would you crucify him?
Would you crucify him?
My old friends
But would you crucify him?
I’m talking ’bout the sweet Lord Jesus
If he’d stand right here among you once again

She’s asking how many times
Will you look down to the harlot
Looking through her tears pretending you don’t know
But you were once just like her
How can you be now so self-righteous
When in the name of the Lord you throw the first stone

(Chorus)

So now I turn to you
Through your years of your robes and your stained-glass windows
And do you vainly echo your prayers say your pleasing the Lord
Profess the marriage with your tongue
But your mind dreams like the harlot
And if the judge looks to your thoughts can’t you guess your reward
Yet how many times have you quoted from your Bible
To justify your eye for your eye and your tooth for your tooth
You say that he didn’t mean
What he was plainly saying
And like the Pharisee, my friend you’re an educated fool

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