ÒIT WAS
WRITTENÓ
IT WAS WRITTEN THAT CHRIST WOULD
LEAVE HEAVEN TO ROAM THE EARTH
IT WAS WRITTEN A VIRGIN NAMED MARY
WOULD GIVE HIM BIRTH
IT WAS WRITTEN THAT JESUS WOULD
DIE FOR EVERY SIN
FULFILLING ALL THE PROPHECIES TOLD
CONCERNING HIM
IT WAS WRITTEN THAT GIVING HIS
LIFE WAS PART OF A PLAN
IT WAS WRITTEN THAT MANY WOULD
DOUBT THE SON OF MAN
IT WAS WRITTEN THAT JESUS WOULD
DIE IN THE WORST WAY
AND HANG ON A CROSS BUT RISE ON
THE THIRD DAY
THE NIGHT OF THE PASSOVER, AN
EVENT SO COLLOSSAL
THE LAST SUPPER WITH JESUS AND HIS
APOSTLES
BEFORE HIS DISCIPLES EVEN KNEW
WHAT WOULD UNCOVER
HE UTTERED THIS IS WHAT I DESIRE
BEFORE I SUFFER
HE TOOK THE BREAD, BLESSED IT THEN
GAVE IT TO THEM THEN HE
SAID THIS IS MY BODY DO THIS IN
MEMORY OF ME, THEN HE
TOOK THE CUP AFTER BREAD AND THEN
HE SAID
THIS SYMBOLIZES THE COVENANT OF MY
BLOOD SHED
WHILE THINKING AHEAD OF THE ONES
THAT WOULD SOON SLAY HIM
HE THEN PREDICTS THAT ONE OF THE
12 WOULD THEN BETRAY HIM
PETER SAID FOR YOU LORD IÕD PUT MY
LIFE ON THE LINE
BUT JESUS PREDICTED HE WOULD DENY
HIM MORE THAN 1 TIME
WHAT THEY HEARD THEY THOUGHT WAS
ABSURD AND OFF THE WALL
THEY WERE IN AWE, BUT THIS WAS THE
PROPHECY JESUS SAW
HE SAID THE SON OF MAN WILL BE
PERSECUTED BY MEN
AND THEN THE THINGS CONCERNING ME
WILL COME TO AN END
THEN HE WENT OUT TO THE MOUNT OF
OLIVES SO HE COULD PRAY
TO GOD FOR STRENGTH WITH HIS
DISCIPLES NOT FAR AWAY
HE SAID IF ITÕS YOUR WILL FATHER
TAKE THIS CUP FROM YOUR SON
BUT NEVERTHELESS ITÕS NOT MY WILL
BUT ITÕS YOURS TO BE DONE
THEN AN ANGEL CAME GIVING HIM
STRENGTH FROM UP ABOVE
BUT THE MORE THAT HE PRAYED HIS
SWEAT WAS LIKE DROPS OF BLOOD
WHEN HE AROSE HE SAW HIS DISCIPLES
WERE ALL ASLEEP
SO HE WOKE THEM AND TOLD THEM TO
PRAY SO THEY WONÕT BE WEAK
BUT AS HE SPOKE HE SAW THE CHIEF
PRIESTS COMING TO GET HIM
AND APPREHEND HIM AND THEN JUDAS
APPROACHED TO KISS HIM
HE SAID TO JUDAS ARE YOU BETRAYING
ME WITH A KISS
WITH NO SURPRISE BECAUSE HE
ALREADY PREDICTED THIS
HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES LET IT BE
AND DONÕT ATTACK
AS THE PRIESTÕS SERVANTS ARRESTED
HIM, SOON AFTER THAT
THE SECOND PREDICTION WAS REVEALED
WITH PETERÕS DENIAL
AS THEY TOOK JESUS AWAY LEADING
HIM TO THE TRIAL
VERSE 2
BEFORE THEY TOOK HIM TO TRIAL THE
PRIEST SERVANTS HAD
WHIPPED HIM, FLOCKED HIM, KICKED
HIM, AND MOCKED HIM
THIS TURN OF EVENTS MADE JESUS
GRIEVE
THEY ASKED ARE YOU THE CHRIST, HE
SAID IF I TOLD YOU, YOU WONÕT BELIEVE
THEY ASKED ARE YOU THE SON OF GOD
IN THE FORM OF A MAN
HE SAID YES THIS IS CORRECT WHO
YOU SAY I AM
THE MULTITUDE LED HIM TO PILATE TO
TRY TO GET
JESUS CRUCIFIED, BUT AS SOON AS
THE TRIAL SET
THEY SAID TO PILATE, HE CLAIMS TO
BE THE CHRIST
AND FOR WHAT HE TEACHES WE FEEL HE
NEEDS TO PAY THE PRICE
PILATE SAID TO CHRIST IS THIS TRUE
WHAT IS SAID BY THEM
HE SAID YES, BUT PILATE SAID I
FIND NO FAULT IN HIM
BUT THE CHIEF PRIESTS, RULERS, AND
PEOPLE HAD ALL INSISTED
TO SOLICIT, FOR JESUSÕ DEATH THEY
WERE PERSISTENT
SO PILATE SAID WHAT IÕLL DO IS
RELEASE SOMEBODY UNTO YOU
THE DECISION IS YOURS, JUST TELL
ME WHO
ITÕS TRUE, THEY ALL DESERTED THE
CHRIST AND THEN ASSERTED TO
RELEASE A PRISONER NAMED BARRABAS,
AN EX-MURDERER
SO THEY SUGGESTED IT AND STRESSED
IT, ARRESTED CHRIST
THE MAJESTIC PILATE FINALLY DID
WHAT THEY REQUESTED
THEY PUT ON HIS HEAD A CROWN OF
THORNS, HIS CLOTHES WERE TORN
AND HIS FOLLOWERS ALL STARTED TO
MOURN
HE CARRIED THE CROSS TO CALVARY
FOR HIS LAST STOP
ASKING GOD TO FORGIVE THEM WHILE
HIS CLOTHES THEY CAST LOTS
THEY NAILED HIS HANDS AND NAILED
HIS FEET, SOME YELLED AND WEEPED
THEY SMELLED DEFEAT, I CANÕT HELP
BUT THINK
ALL THE AGONY MISERY AND PAIN HE
FELT
THEY SAID IF YOUÕRE CHRIST THEN
WHY DONÕT YOU SAVE YOURSELF
AND AS THEY MOCKED HIM AS JESUS
APPROACHED HIS DEATH
HE GAVE HIS SPIRIT TO GOD THEN HE
BREATHED HIS LAST BREATH
ONLY TO SAVE OUR SOULS AND AS THE
STORY GOES
ON THE THIRD DAY MY SAVIOR HAD
AROSE
REPEAT
OUTRO
SINGING
( FORE TOLD, BY MY FATHER, HE TOLD ME BY MY FATHER, PROPHECIED BY
MEN CALLED OF GOD, HE WOULD DIE FOR YOU . THE SON OF GOD WOULD
GIVE UP HIS LIFE FOR YOU, HE WOULD SHED HIS BLOOD, HE WOULD SEE
YOU THROUGH)