He's Alive

The gates and doors were barred and all the windows fastened down

I spent the night in sleeplessness and rose at every sound

Half in hopeless sorrow and half in fear, the day

Would find the soldiers breaking through to drag us all away

Then just before the sunrise, I heard something at the wall

The gate began to rattle, and a voice began to call

I hurried to the window and looked down to the street

Expecting swords and torches and the sound of soldiers feet

But there was no one there but Mary, so I went down to let her in

John stood there beside me as she told us where she'd been

She said, "They moved him in the night and none of us knows where

Oh, the stones been rolled away, and now his body isn't there"

So we both ran toward the garden, then John ran on ahead

We found the stone and the empty tomb just the way that Mary said

But the winding sheet they wrapped him in was just an empty shell

And how or where they'd taken him, it was more than I could tell

Perhaps something strange had happened there, just what I did not know

John believed a miracle, but I just turned to go

Circumstance and speculation couldn't lift me very high

'Cause I'd seen them crucify Him and then saw Him die

Back inside the house again, the guilt and anguish came

Everything I'd promised Him just added to my shame

When at last it came to choices, I denied I knew His name

And even if He was alive, it could never be the same

Then suddenly the air was filled with a strange and sweet perfume

Light that came from everywhere drove shadows from the room

Then Jesus stood before me with His arms held open wide

And I fell down on my knees and clung to Him and cried

Then He raised me to my feet and as I looked into His eyes

Love was shining out from Him like sunlight from the sky

Guilt and my confusion disappeared in sweet release

And every fear I'd ever had just melted into peace

'Cause He's alive,

He's alive,

He's Alive and I'm forgiven

Heavens gates are open wide

He's alive,

He's alive

He's alive, and I'm forgiven

Heavens gates are open wide

He's alive

He's alive

He's alive and I'm forgiven

Heavens gates are open wide

He's alive,

He's alive,

He's alive, and I'm forgiven

Heavens gates are open wide

He's alive

He's alive

He's alive , and I'm forgiven

Heavens gates are open wide

He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven (He's alive)

Heavens gates are open wide

He's alive