[Verse 1] They said “Give us a king Like the other nations” As if envy Were a kind of wisdom They had smoke on the mountain A pillar in the dark Bread in the dust Water from a split rock And still It wasn’t enough They stared at the Invisible And called Him absence Stared at their neighbors’ crowns And called it vision So they chose height Over heart Steel Over spirit A tall man Instead of a torn-open God And You let them You let us You always let us Walk to the edge Of our own wanting [Chorus] Rejected King We keep choosing faces over faith Thrones over thorns Voices over the Voice that made them Rejected King We trade quiet mercy for loud men Then blame You When they break us And still You stay Still You come closer Un-crowned Unwanted Waiting in our ruins [Verse 2] Generations later We sharpened the same request Put it on our lips Like a blade “We have no king but Caesar” Like a curse Signed in public Shouted So the sky could hear The first time We rejected You for Saul The last time We rejected You for Rome Sand and dust Paper kingdoms And we called it safety You stood there Robe on torn shoulders Back striped like a field Plowed for planting And we planted nails “Prophesy” They said As if You hadn’t Centuries earlier Through a weeping prophet Through an old judge’s warning Through the ache of Your own heart [Chorus] Rejected King We keep choosing power over Presence Swords over scars Flags over the hands that formed us Rejected King We crown impostors Then cry out When they crush us And still You stay Still You walk forward Dragging timber Into our sentence [Bridge] This is the scandal: The God we refused Became the man we accused The King we demanded Became the victim we abandoned The One we would not trust As voice in the desert We could not bear As body on a tree We asked for a king And You answered With Yourself Stripped Spat on Spiked to wood Above a mocking sign King Of the very ones Who picked another [Chorus] Rejected King You hang between thieves we chose Praying for mouths That cursed You Rejected King You wear our “no” Like a crown Our jealousy Like a cloak Yet in Your silence A kingdom splits the veil In Your last breath Our first hope finally speaks [Outro] So here I am Heart full of the same old hunger Asking again Not for a king Like the other nations But for the King We crucified The one we rejected Is the only one Who never Rejects (yes… my King)
