[Intro] A crown of thorns, a wooden throne The sky went dark, He stood alone [Verse 1] They drove the iron through His hands Dust rose up across the land A mother watched the daylight die While mercy breathed beneath the sky The sentence written, debt declared Every hidden wound laid bare Not for gold and not for fame He took the fire, bore the blame [Pre-Chorus] Hear the hammer, count the cost Love held fast though all seemed lost [Chorus] Blood on the beam, payment made The weight of sin in crimson paid From that hill, forgiveness came Mercy answered every name He gave His life, the debt was torn Through death itself, new hope was born [Verse 2] No throne of steel, no army line Could stop that appointed sign The earth shook hard, the curtain split The grave stood open after it I bring the pride I tried to hide The words that cut, the ways I lied Still the cross says, “Come inside” The price is paid, the door is wide [Rap Verse] Listen—every scar is a ledger line Every stolen breath, every crooked design Every cold refusal, every selfish throne He carried what I claimed as my own No clean excuse, no righteous pose No polished mask can hide what He knows Yet mercy stepped into the furnace and stayed The debt was mine, but the ransom was paid Not by silver, not by law Not by strength that the world once saw The spotless One took the guilty part And split the prison from the human heart [Breakdown] Nail by nail! Cost by cost! Life poured out! Nothing lost! I was chained to the weight I made He broke the lock with the price He paid [Chorus] Blood on the beam, payment made The weight of sin in crimson paid From that hill, forgiveness came Mercy answered every name He gave His life, the debt was torn Through death itself, new hope was born [Bridge] When my past comes calling at the door I remember what the cross was for Not denial, not a cheap disguise A wounded love that opened paradise [Final Chorus] Blood on the beam, payment made The oldest debt in crimson paid From that hill, forgiveness came Mercy still remembers every name He gave His life, the veil was torn Out of the grave, a hope was born [Outro] The stone is rolled, the night is gone The Lamb was slain, the dawn moves on
