(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.
JesusFreak
