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He's Alive
- The gates and doors were barred
and all the windows fastened down.
I spent the night in sleeplessness
and rose at every sound.
Half in hopeless sorrow
and half in fear the day
Would find the soldiers breakin' through
to drag us all away.
- And just before the sunrise
I heard something at the wall,
The gate began to rattle
and a voice began to call.
I hurried to the window,
looked down into the street,
Expecting swords and torches
and the sound of soldiers' feet.
- But there was no one there but Mary
so I went down to let her in.
John stood there beside me
as she told me where she'd been.
She said "They've moved Him in the night
and none of us knows where.
The stone's been rolled away
and now His body isn't there."
- So we both ran toward the garden,
then John ran on ahead.
We found the stone and empty tomb
just the way that Mary said.
But the winding sheet they wrapped Him in
was just an empty shell.
And how or where they'd taken him
was more than I could tell.
- Oh, something strange had happened there,
just what I did not know.
John believed a miracle
but I just turned to go.
Circumstance and speculation
couldn't lift me very high
'Cause I'd seen them crucify Him,
then I saw Him die.
- Back inside the house again
the guilt and anguish came.
Everything I'd promised Him
just added to my shame.
When at last it came to choices
I denied I knew His name,
And even if He was alive
it wouldn't be the same.
- But suddenly the air was filled
with a strange and sweet perfume.
Light that came from everywhere
drove shadows from the room,
And Jesus stood before me
with His arms held open wide
And I fell down on my knees
and I just clung to Him and cried.
- Then He raised me to my feet
and as I looked into His eyes
Love was shining out from Him
like sunlight from the skies.
Guilt in my confusion
disappeared in sweet release,
And every fear I'd ever had
just melted into peace.
He's alive!
He's alive!
Yes, He's alive and I'm forgiven,
Heaven's gates are open wide.
He's alive!
Yes, He's alive!
Oh, He's alive and I'm forgiven,
Heaven's gates are open wide.
He's alive!
He's alive!
Hallalujah, He's alive!
He's alive and I'm forgiven,
Heaven's gates are open wide.
He's alive!
He's alive!
He's alive! I believe it,
He's alive!
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