[Intro] [Sea] [Wood creaking] [Soft guitar] [Verse 1 — The Nets] He was looking down Mending broken nets Salt dried white Upon his hands His father in the ship His brother by his side Then Jesus called And he left the ship And his father too He did not know Those fisherman hands Would one day hold a pen At the end of the world [Instrumental] [Chorus] The disciple Whom Jesus loved From the nets To the breast of the Lord He saw He heard He followed the Lamb And when heaven said write He wrote When heaven said seal He stopped his hand The Beloved The Beloved [Instrumental] [Verse 2 — The Breast] Years later Those hands were older He had heard the parables Watched the dead arise Seen the bread multiplied Seen the devils flee Then supper came And there was leaning On Jesus' bosom One of His disciples Whom Jesus loved Close enough To hear His heartbeat Before the nails [Instrumental] [Verse 3 — The Cross] Then he looked up The hands he followed Were pierced His Lord upon the cross His mother standing near Woman Behold thy son Behold thy mother And from that hour He took her Unto his own home The fisherman Had followed Him here too [Instrumental] [Chorus] The disciple Whom Jesus loved From the nets To the breast of the Lord He saw He heard He followed the Lamb And when heaven said write He wrote When heaven said seal He stopped his hand The Beloved The Beloved [Long Instrumental] [Verse 4 — Patmos] Now the hair is grey The hands are weathered No nets beneath them now Patmos Tribulation The kingdom and patience Of Jesus Christ Then behind him— A great voice As of a trumpet What thou seest Write in a book The fisherman Became the witness The witness Became the writer And the hand That once repaired the nets Began to write The end [Instrumental] [Bridge — The Seven Thunders] Then seven thunders Uttered their voices John heard them His hand moved His pen was ready I was about To write— [Silence] Seal up those things Which the seven thunders uttered And write them not [Long Silence] He knew And we don't He heard And we don't The man entrusted With Revelation Was also trusted With a secret [Instrumental rising] [Final Chorus] The disciple Whom Jesus loved Salted hands And the Word of God He saw He heard He followed the Lamb When Jesus said come He followed When Jesus said write He wrote When heaven said seal He stopped his hand Faithful with revelation Faithful with silence The Beloved The Beloved [Outro] From mending nets To mysteries He could not write Same John Same Lord [Silence] Jesus is the Lord.
