A warfare waged on earth in dark of night
Where fires blazed and burned out deepest holes
Inside our weighted, worn, and weary souls
And left us for dead, far too weak to fight
This fight, you see, was in the human race
Feverishly searching for truest peace
O, but sin’s death grip would never release
Had we only violent recompense to face?
But there was only One who could restore
This One who came to fuse the earth and sky
With his two tender, healing, wounded hands
That too had holes the world had cruelly bore
His body hung within our space and time
Extending truest peace, from God to man
On this shadowed earth we waited
Inside a night that we created
Mouths exploded with desperate pleas
With backs bent low and aching knees
"Why, O LORD, do you hide yourself?"
Our blood-shot eyes could find no sleep
For peace was far beyond our reach
The night was all we'd ever known
A world afraid and all alone
"Why, O LORD, do you stand far away?"
And when all hope seemed out of sight
We saw a ray break through the night
Its human cry was like our own
Flesh and blood and skin and bone
"Arise, O LORD, lift up your hand"
This Light ripped through the darkened veil
And mended hearts with thorns and nails
It was this Light that took on shame
So death would have no more to claim
"The LORD is King forever and ever"
So now we wait a second time
For Light to make the wrong things right
Where thousands weep and watch and pray
And long for peace to rule and reign
"O LORD, you hear the desire of the afflicted"
