Crucify Your Name Again V1.2.9

📀 Crucify Your Name Again ✨ [Intro: Instrumental - Sparse, Slow Piano Voicing and Soft Brushed Hi-Hat Pulse; Warm, Low Strings Murmuring Underneath, Verses Almost Whispered, Vowels Stretched, Subtle Swells in the Strings at Key Emotional Lines, then Quick Retreats to Bare Piano to keep it Grounded and Human, Melodious, Emotional, Heartfelt, Sensual, Dramatic - Bars of gentle melody before the voice enters] Ohh…. Ahh…. Ohh…. Ahh… [Verse 1] — Someone’s crying in a doorway. Someone’s praying at a grave. Blood on headlines. Blurred and distant. Feels so close I taste the shame. They break the ones who carry mercy. Burn the books that speak of grace. Call it progress. Call it freedom. While they spit into your face. [Chorus 1] — Ashes on the altar… Smoke in every prayer… Rises as burning incense… Into my Father’s ears… I’m watching all Your children… Hunted in the open air… Ohh…, Father God…. I desperately kneel in prayer… This world’s an abomination! I no longer can bear their iniquities… Tearing kindness limb from limb… I don’t know how to keep on breathing… When they crucify Your name again… [Verse 2] — I detest how they dress up in finer language. Smiles that sharpen like a knife. They paint halos on their anger. Then they gamble with our lives. I’m so tired of soft excuses. For the way they love to destroy and harm. Saying “tolerance” in daylight. While they trample every heart. [Chorus 1] — Ashes on the altar… Smoke in every prayer… Rises as burning incense… Into my Father’s ears… I’m watching all Your children… Hunted in the open air… Ohh…, Father God…. I desperately kneel in prayer… This world’s an abomination! I no longer can bear their iniquities… Tearing kindness limb from limb… I don’t know how to keep on breathing… When they crucify Your name again… [Instrumental Ensemble: - Bars of gentle melody before the voice enters] [Bridge] — If I speak… Will they erase me? (Hush now…)* If I kneel… Will they take aim? I am small… Strong… But pure-hearted… You promised… The pure in heart, shall see Almighty God… I remember… Every martyr has a name… Jesus Christ showed them the way… I never thought I’d see the day… Where history repeats itself again, in such a horrific way… Hold the broken in Your body, Oh my Lord, Jesus Christ… Hide the frightened in Your scars… May they find peace in Your heart… Teach my shaking hands to steady… As I rage inside Your arms… It’s not for me to take revenge, nor ask of it from You… The Bride of Jesus Christ, forgives no matter what it takes… I know this is who I am, Your Bride… To be by Your side… I will never turn back to my old life, nor old ways ever again… I will glorify my Heavenly Father for it will be His will, His ways… This is my purpose, He made me for this day… So forgive I will, always and today… [Chorus 2] — Ashes on the altar… Smoke in every prayer… Rises as burning incense… Into my Father’s ears… I’m watching all Your children… Hunted in the open air… Ohh…, Father God…. I desperately kneel in prayer… This world’s an abomination! I no longer can bear their iniquities… Tearing kindness limb from limb… I don’t know how to keep on breathing… When they crucify Your name again… So I’ll whisper till my very last breath… “I still choose to bear Your Name, and Love in this, so I do forgive” Ohh…. Ahh…. Ohh…. Ahh… [Outro: Instrumental Ensemble - Final single Piano note, sustained, silence]