The Shame and Love of the Cross

[The Shame and Love of the Cross]

[Verse 1]
Naked flesh, winds like blades cutting through the air
Bearing sinners' shame in heart-rending despair
Filthy sins like muck, washed in tears' torrent flow
Soul-shattering pain, love's flame in agony's glow

[Chorus]
Oh, love of the cross, blood's eternal scream
Nailed hands and feet, tearful sigh's dream
Repent in floods, holiness pursue with fire
Heaven's gates open in glory's desire

[Verse 2]
Outer robe quartered by Rome's merciless steel
Israel's nation scattered in tearful reel
Inner garment lots cast, seamless hold so true
Jewish faith burns like flames in night's blue

[Chorus]
Oh, love of the cross, blood's eternal scream
Nailed hands and feet, tearful sigh's dream
Repent in floods, holiness pursue with fire
Heaven's gates open in glory's desire

[Verse 3]
Jerusalem crumbles, stones in despair's fall
Jewish sorrows in history's bloodied call
Nazi horrors, stripped in death's chilling scream
Curse repaid in Lord's redeeming stream

[Chorus]
Oh, love of the cross, blood's eternal scream
Nailed hands and feet, tearful sigh's dream
Repent in floods, holiness pursue with fire
Heaven's gates open in glory's desire

[Verse 4]
Sins of hands and feet, atoned in pain's fierce tide
Nailed to cross in torment's anguished ride
Prolonged agony, weight pulls in despair's flood
Eternal freedom in suffering's blood

[Chorus]
Oh, love of the cross, blood's eternal scream
Nailed hands and feet, tearful sigh's dream
Repent in floods, holiness pursue with fire
Heaven's gates open in glory's desire

[Verse 5]
Lips repent, hearts in sin's mire drown in grief
False words, Lord weeps in sorrow's brief
Cast off sin, holiness in tears embrace
Child of God in sacred, tearful grace

[Chorus]
Oh, love of the cross, blood's eternal scream
Nailed hands and feet, tearful sigh's dream
Repent in floods, holiness pursue with fire
Heaven's gates open in glory's desire

[Verse 6]
Trumpet calls, awake in prayer's vigilant tear
Bride adorn, no shame in tearful fear
Cross's love remember, hearts in flame's embrace
Eternal thanks in heaven's grace

[Chorus]
Oh, love of the cross, blood's eternal scream
Nailed hands and feet, tearful sigh's dream
Repent in floods, holiness pursue with fire
Heaven's gates open in glory's desire