The
gates and doors were barred, and all the windows fastened down.
I spent the night in sleeplessness, rose at every sound.
Half in hopeless sorrow, half in fear the day, would find the soldiers breaking
through to drag us all away.
Just before the sunrise, I heard something at the wall.
The gate began to rattle, a voice began to call.
I hurried to the window, and 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 us where she'd been.
She said they've moved him in the night.
None of us knows where, the stone's been rolled away, and now his body isn't there.
We both ran toward the garden, then John ran on ahead.
We found the stone in the empty tomb, just the way that Mary'd said.
But the winding sheet they'd wrapped him in was just an empty shell.
How or where they'd taken him was more than I could tell.
Something strange had happened there, but just what, I didn't 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, cause when at last it came,
the choices I'd denied, I knew his name.
Even if he was alive, it wouldn't be the same.
Suddenly the air was filled with strange and sweet perfume, light that came from
everywhere, drove shadows from the room.
Jesus stood before me, with his arms held open wide.
I fell down on my knees, and just clung to him and cried.
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 and my confusion disappeared in sweet release, and every fear I'd ever
had, just melted into peace.
He's alive and I'm forgiven, heaven's gates are open wide.
He's alive, 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.