
WALKING THE SONG OF THE CROSS
Music and lyrics by James Ralph Boyd
Piano sheet music available upon request at jamesralphb6@icloud.com.
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Subject: Music video based upon Jesus' haunting words along the way of the cross as told by St. Luke's Gospel 23:26-32: "Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me; weep instead for yourselves and for your children, for indeed, the days are coming when people will say, 'Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.' At that time people will say to the mountains, 'Fall upon us!' and to the hills, 'Cover us!' for if these things are done when the wood is green what will happen when it is dry?"
Lyrics
I see Him walking, walking down a road.
I see the people throwing stones.
Walking. He's still walking up a hill.
I see the women crying for Him as He passed them by.
He was wearing a crown, carrying a tree on His back, trudging up the hill.
Yet He spoke to them:
Blessed women, holy daughters of Jerusalem, please don't cry for Me.
For, indeed, the days are coming when you will say,
"Blessed are the barren women and their wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed.
Blessed are the barren women and their wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed."
Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh, Israel, the day will come for you when the people will say to the hilltops, to the mountains, and their summits, to every high spot in the sky,
"Fall upon us. Give us cover."
For I see hatred on them and their children.
For if these things are done when the wood is green, what will happen when the wood becomes so dry?
What will happen?
What will happen when the wood becomes so dry?
Do no cry.
Do not mourn for me.
Let them lead me to Thy holy hill to rebuild, to rebuild, to rebuild the house of Israel.
Israel, Israel, Oh, Israel!
Come and see what God has just begun.
Though I fall, I will but rise headstrong.
But now I go.
Now I walk to Thy altar of Jerusalem for you, for you, Oh, Oh, Israel.
The steps of this Man are from the Lord.
The steps of this Man are from the Lord, the Lord.
Then Jesus stood still on Calvary as the soldiers stripped Him of His clothes for all the people to see Him in His nudity.
Then they nailed him to a cross once, twice, three times.
Then they cast lots for His seamless coat as he slowly died, as He slowly died.
So slowly He died.
So slowly He died.
Why did this God-man Jesus let them do such cruel things to Him?
He did it to save us from our sins.
He did it so we'd live evermore.
So we could be with Him.
He did it for Love, for Love.
For Love, for Love.
Love. Love.
He did it for Love.