(Intro - Heavy, distorted guitar riff) Verse 1 Used to be bound to a paper chain A contract written in blood and rain It held me captive, day by day Until the old man simply passed away (Yeah, the law applies only while you're alive) Now I'm united with the One who rose From the dust and the earth, where the seed grows A harvest of deeds, for a new life's flow Let the dead letter go, let the Spirit show. Pre-Chorus When I was running on my old machine The engine was revving, but the hands were unclean The law screamed the rules, but I couldn't break free Just a blueprint for my misery. Chorus Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this curse and this sham? This life dominated, by sin and by death! Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ's breath! (The answer's in Christ!) Verse 2 Did the sacred code, designed for the light, Turn around and stab me in the dead of the night? Of course not, no, it showed me the cost The simple command of the things I had lost It said, "You must not covet," and the craving took hold A story as ancient as the silver and gold Sin hijacked the good, it used the decree, To deceive and to kill, the real enemy. Pre-Chorus The trouble is not with the law, it's pristine It's spiritual and good, it's sharp and it's keen But the trouble is me, just a slave in the room A prisoner in my own personal tomb. Chorus Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this curse and this sham? This life dominated, by sin and by death! Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ's breath! (The answer's in Christ!) (Bridge - Tempo slows, bass line prominent, vocals more raw) I don't understand myself, I truly want to do right But the wrong thing follows me into the night I hate what I'm doing, but I do it anyway There's a power at war with my mind every day It's not me doing wrong, no, it's sin living in! It's the darkness inside, where the battle begins. I love the law, I do, with every beat of my heart But I'm tearing myself and my spirit apart. (Guitar solo - climactic and soaring, then cuts back to a driving rhythm) Chorus Oh, what a miserable person I am! Who will free me from this curse and this sham? This life dominated, by sin and by death! Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ's breath! (The answer's in Christ! Yeah!) Outro So you see how it is, in my mind, I'm devout But the flesh is a slave, there is no way out Except for the Savior, who broke every chain... (Drum hit, guitar feedback fades out) Christ, my Lord.

Romans 7