CRUCIFIXION AND RESURRECTION

I. THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL: THE MURDER OF CHRIST

ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?

FATHER, INTO THY HANDS I COMMEND MY SPIRIT

IT IS DONE

GOD IS DEAD, GOD IS DEAD
GOD IS PERISHED AND DESTROYED
GOD IS NO MORE AMONG US
GOD IS DEAD

SLAUGHTERED BY HIS OWN CHILDREN
BROTHERS AND SISTERS, HE KNEW THEM ALL
BETRAYED BY A HANGED MAN
PIERCED AND MOCKED BY THOSE HE LOVED
GOD IS DEAD
SLAUGHTERED BY HIS OWN CHILDREN

TURN BACK THE FACE OF THE HEAVENS:
SMILE NO MORE ON THE EARTH, ONCE-PROUD SUN
YOUR SMILE IS SMITTEN, IT HANGS DEAD ON THE CROSS
REND THE EARTH, REND THE VEIL
CRACK THE SKY AND THE DARKNESS POURS FORTH,
FILLING THE PRINTS IN THE HANDS AND WRISTS

CRACK THE EARTH WIDE OPEN
CRACK IT, IT IS UNDONE
ITS GOD LAYS DEAD ON THE CROSS
IT CAN HAVE NO MORE JOY IN THIS LIFE
THE DARKNESS HISSES FORTH
THE STORMS BREAK, KILL AND DESTROY
THE GRAVE HOLDS TIGHTER STILL TO THOSE IN ITS CLUTCHES
THE DUST CLAIMS ITS OWN
HISSING, THE DUST CLAIMS THE DUST
THE MASTER LIES DEAD AND THE DUST CLAIMS THE DUST

NO COMFORT LIES IN LAYING GOD TO REST
IN A TOMB
NO COMFORT CAN BE FOUND IN BURYING
THE CREATOR OF THE WORLD

HE WHOSE NAME CANNOT BE SPOKEN
LIES DEAD AND COLD
HE DOES NOT MOVE
HE DOES NOT HEAL
HE DOES NOT CURE
HE DOES NOT SPEAK
HE DOES NOT TEACH
HE DOES NOT CRY
HE DOES NOT LAUGH
HE DOES NOT HOLD THE CHILD IN HIS LAP
HE WHOSE NAME CANNOT BE SPOKEN
HE WHOSE NAME CANNOT BE SPOKEN
HE IS DEAD
HE IS GONE
HE IS DEAD
HE IS GONE

CRY, THOUGH THAT WILL NOT BRING HIM BACK
MOURN, THOUGH THAT WILL NOT GIVE HIM LIFE
WAIL, THOUGH THAT WILL NOT CAUSE HIM TO BREATHE

WEEP AND GNASH YOUR TEETH
REND YOUR CLOTHING AND HIDE YOUR FACE IN ASHES
YOUR MASTER LIES DEAD
ALL THE UNIVERSE MOURNS
JOIN THEM ALL AND EMBRACE THE FACT
THAT IF GOD SUFFERS AND DIES
WE ALL SUFFER AND DIE
IF GOD IS CRUCIFIED
WE ALL ARE CRUCIFIED
IF GOD LIES DEAD AND UNMOVING
WE ALL LIE DEAD AND UNMOVING
IF GOD IS DEAD
WE ALL ARE DEAD

THE FATHER OF ALL CREATION
MASTER OF THE WHOLE UNIVERSE
CANNOT SHED BUT ONE TEAR:
HE WEEPS A THOUSAND FOR EVERY TEAR OF MAN
HIS CRY A THOUSAND FOLD THAT OF ALL HUMANITY
HIS SON LIES DEAD
HIS SON LIES DEAD
IN THAT THERE IS NO COMFORT
HE HAD TO FORSAKE HIM
AND HIS SON LIES DEAD
THE FATHER WILL ALWAYS CRY WHEN HIS SON IS DEAD
FOR IF HIS SON IS DEAD
HE, TOO, IS DEAD
GOD IS DEAD
AND ALL IS DEAD
GOD IS DEAD
ALL IS DEAD

DUST AND RUIN CONQUER ALL
CREATION SLIPS INTO CHAOS
WORK IS UNDONE
UNSEALED NOW ALL THINGS ARE
GOD IS DEAD, PURPOSE IS DESTROYED
ANNIHILATION OF ALL THINGS
PUREST GOOD EXISTS NO MORE
PUREST TRUTH EXISTS NO MORE
PUREST LOVE EXISTS NO MORE
ALL IS DEAD
ALL IS DEAD
ALL IS DEAD

ELOI, ELOI, LAMA SABACHTHANI?
ELOI, ELOI, LAMA
SABACHTHANI?
ELOI!
ELOI!
ELOI!

II. INTERIM: THE COLLAPSE IS HALTED

Yet
Something yet stirs
The air is not all blackness and filth:
Something remains

Ghost
Whispers, whispers something stillness
Something hushed, something somewhere

All that was once before
Is now destroyed
All that was once before,
Goodness, truth and love
Are now no more

But neither are evil, lies and hate
With nothing, there can be nothing
With no opposite, naught can exist
God is dead
And all is dead
Even all evil

Who shall rise first from the dust?
Who hath power to redeem us all?
Who hath power to put form back to chaos?
Who shall rise again, as he saw his father do before him?
Who hath suffered all things, that he might redeem all things from suffering?

Take up thy cross and bear it into the nether worlds
Take up thy burdens and bear them into the nether worlds
Take up all these things
And take us, too

We have wept at thy pains, O Lord
We have cried at thy death, O Lord
We have mourned at thy passing, O Lord
O Lord, O Lord

We wept at thy pains
For they were our own
We cried at thy death
For it was our own
We mourned at thy passing
For it was our own, O Lord
O Lord, O Lord

Take us from our tombs
Take us from our pains
Take us from our miseries
Take us from our sorrows
Take us home, O Lord
O Lord, O Lord
Take us home, O Lord

Thou hast paid the price, the too too dear price
Thou hast paid the uttermost farthing, the uttermost senine
Thou hast drunk from the bitterest cup, drunk its fulness
Thou hast descended beneath all things
Thou hast ended all things
Thou hast created all things
And destroyed all things
Now create them anew.
Create them anew, O Lord
Create them anew, O Lord, O Lord
Take us home, O Lord
Take us home, O Lord, O Lord
Take us home, O Lord

Rise above all things
Clothe thyself with immortality
Clothe thyself with life eternal
Clothe thyself once again with body renewed
Do as thou hast said once before, O Lord:
Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house!
Arise!
Arise!
Arise!

III. THE TRIUMPH OF GOOD: CHRIST IS RISEN FROM THE DEAD

(stillness, nothing moving
stillness, hold thy breath
the marvelous work and a wonder is about to come forth
hold thy breath and be patient but a little more
let thy next breath
be the very one Christ himself takes)

The tomb is now open,
For it is no longer needed
Angels make conversations of joy
Where once men wept in darkness

Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified
He is not here: for he is risen
Come, see the place where the Lord lay

God lives!
God lives!
GOD LIVES!

ALL POWER IS GIVEN UNTO ME IN HEAVEN AND EARTH
OBSERVE ALL THINGS WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU
AND, LO, I AM WITH YOU ALWAY
EVEN UNTO THE END OF THE WORLD

BEHOLD THE LAMB ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD
BEHOLD THE SAVIOR OF US ALL
BEHOLD THE LAMB ON THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD
BEHOLD THE SAVIOR OF US ALL

GOD IS 'LIVE
GOD IS 'LIVE
GOD IS 'LIVE
AND ALL THINGS ARE 'LIVE IN HIM TOO
GOD IS 'LIVE
GOD IS 'LIVE
GOD IS 'LIVE
AND ALL THINGS ARE 'LIVE IN HIM TOO

LET EARTH BRING FORTH ITS FINEST OF BOUNTIES
LET THE SUN BREAK FORTH INTO JOY
LET FLOWERS BURST WITH BOUNDLESS EXPRESSION
OF JOY THAT CANNOT HAVE A BOUND

LET ALL THAT WERE ONCE NUMBERED 'MONG THE DEAD
BREAK FORTH FROM THEIR NOW-USELESS TOMBS
LET ALL WHOSE SPIRITS ONCE HAD A BODY
JOIN NOW IN A PERFECTED SOUL

LET ALL THOSE WHO HAVE DIED OF THEIR SUFFERINGS
SICKNESS, HATREDS AND MARTYRDOMS
RISE FORTH TRIUMPHANT, NO MORE OPPRESSION
JOINT HEIRS WITH THE SOLE SON OF GOD!

GOD IS 'LIVE
GOD IS 'LIVE
GOD IS 'LIVE
AND ALL THINGS ARE 'LIVE IN HIM TOO
GOD IS 'LIVE
GOD IS 'LIVE
GOD IS 'LIVE
AND ALL THINGS ARE 'LIVE IN HIM TOO

SEE NOW AS THE SON GOES TO FATHER
WEEPING, THEY EMBRACE PERFECT LOVE
SEE NOW AS THE SON GOES TO MOTHER
WEEPING, THEY EMBRACE PERFECT LOVE

SEE NOW AS THE FAM'LY ETERNAL
CRY OUT FOR THEIR UNCONSTRAINED JOY
SEE NOW AS THE FAM'LY ETERNAL
MAKE ROOM FOR THEIR OFFSPRING TO COME

SEE NOW AS THE FAM'LY ETERNAL
REACH OUT FOR YOU, THEIR PERFECT HAND
SEE NOW AS THE FAM'LY ETERNAL
GUIDE YOU INTO YOUR PROMISED LAND

GOD IS HERE
GOD IS HERE
GOD IS HERE
AND ALL LOVE IS HERE WITH HIM TOO
GOD IS HERE
GOD IS HERE
GOD IS HERE
AND ALL LOVE IS HERE WITH HIM TOO

TAKE NOW YOUR PLACE IN THE GOD-FILLED CHORUS
SING NOW YOUR PRAISE UNTO HIM
SING NOW WITH YOUR ENDLESS AND ETERNAL
UNBOUNDED JOY, PRAISE UNTO HIM

GIVE NOW ALL YOUR LOVE FREELY AND FOREVER
TO FATHER MOTHER SON AND GHOST
JOIN NOW WITH YOUR ETERNAL COMPANIONS
FAM'LIES RISE TAKE PLACE IN THE THRONG

WALK NOW FINAL STEPS IRON-RODDED PATH
TASTE FRUIT OF TREE ETERNAL LIFE
FIND NOW OUR PERFECT FATHERS AND MOTHERS
BROTHERS, SISTERS, HUSBAND AND WIFE

WE ALL LIVE
WE ALL LIVE
WE ALL LIVE
AND GOD MAKES US GODS, LIVE WITH GODS
WE ALL LIVE
WE ALL LIVE
WE ALL LIVE
AND GOD MAKES US GODS, LIVE WITH GODS

MOVE ON THROUGH ENDLESS SPACE OF REDEMPTION
BEYOND WHAT MAN HAS EVER KNOWN
VEIL RENT THAT WE MIGHT SEE ON BEYOND IT
THINGS MAN WAS ALWAYS MEANT TO KNOW

OUR JUDGEMENT FINDS US ACCEPTED AT LAST
WE ARE RIGHTEOUS, VALIANT AND PURE
OUR CHRIST, ETERNAL LOVING REDEEMER
SAVES ALL WHO TO HIM HAVE BEEN TRUE

WALK ON NOW INTO EXALTATION
FATHER THERE, ON HIS THRONE WAITS FOR YOU
AS YOU MARCH TRIUMPHANT APPROACH HIM
HE STEPS OFF OF HIS THRONE

Walks forward
Says,
Welcome home.
Your mother and I are very proud of you.
Welcome home.
Let me hold you, dear child, I love you so.

Go ahead and cry with joy
For I cry with joy, too
Go ahead and smile through the tears
For I smile through the tears, too
Go ahead and be happy
For I am happy, too

You are my work and my glory
I give you immortality and eternal life
Stay with me forever, dear child
And know all that I know

There is no end to mercy
There is no end to light
There is no end to priesthood
There is no end to love
There is no end to fam'ly
There is no end to joy
There is no end to glory
There is no end to home

Welcome home, child
We missed you
Welcome home, child
Welcome home.

I have never truly forsaken you.
I have never truly forsaken you.
I have never truly forsaken you.
Never.
Never.
Never.
Welcome home.