Sting Of Death(Bonus Track)

[1 Corinthians 15:51-54, The Message]But let me tell you something wonderfulA mystery I'll probably never fully understandA signal from heavenThe dead will be up and out of their gravesBeyond the reach of death, never to die againAt the same moment and in the same wayWe will all be changedIn the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen:Everything perishable will be taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishableThis mortal will be replaced by the immortalThen the saying will come true, "Death is swallowed by triumphant Life"Who will have the last word, O' death?O' death, who's afraid of you now?

Anxiety, fear
A life in chains
A clammy hand that grips the heart
Squeezing the joy out of everyday life

The perishable will clothe itself with the imperishable
The mortal clothed with immortality
O' death where is your victory?
O' death where is your sting?

Inadequacy, shame
A notion of being small, nobody, nothing
A pain from deep within
Knowing I'm not the one I should have been


[1 Corinthians 15:56-57, The Message]It was sin that made death so frighetningAnd law-code guilt that gave sin its leverageIts destructive powerBut now in a single, victorious stroke of LifeAll three - sin, guilt, death - are goneThe gift of our Master, Jesus Christ

Loneliness, emptiness
Withdrawing into myself
Confused about truth
Lost in the egocentric sphere of my pathetic life

The mortal clothed with immortality
O' death where is your victory?
O' death where is your sting?