{Intro}
(Low choir • distant bells • pipe organ)
Choir (whispered)
Holy…
Holy…
Holy…
Lead
Everybody wants the light…
Nobody wants the fire.
{Verse 1}
They polished every hard command.
Filed the edges off Your words.
Turned a sword into a feather.
Left the silence where You spoke.
Built a gospel safe to swallow,
Light enough to never change.
All the truth that cost us nothing…
Still wore Your name.
{Pre-Chorus}
Hold it to the light…
Watch it bend.
{Chorus}
Glass gospel.
Clear enough to see through.
Shining like the real thing…
Breaking at the truth.
A cross with all the weight gone.
A road that’s wide enough for all.
If nothing has to die…
Did we hear You at all?
Choir
Holy…
Holy…
Holy…
{Verse 2}
Grace without repentance.
Mercy without scars.
Crowns without surrender.
Heaven without the cross.
They quote the words in red…
Skip the ones that bleed.
Calling comfort freedom…
Calling hunger peace.
{Pre-Chorus}
A mirror tells you
What you want to see.
{Chorus}
Glass gospel.
Beautiful illusion.
Every compromise
Looks like another solution.
The light still catches…
The colors still dance.
But one touch from the Rock…
And it never stands.
Choir
Kyrie eleison…
Christ have mercy…
{Bridge}
Break the glass.
Leave the stone.
I’d rather stumble
On the truth
Than build my life
On something smooth.
If it cuts…
Let it.
If it costs…
Keep it.
If it’s Yours…
Don’t change it.
{Final Chorus}
No glass gospel.
No borrowed light.
Give me words
That still divide.
Give me mercy
Strong enough to heal…
And truth
Strong enough
To wound what’s false.
Choir (full cathedral)
Holy…
Holy…
Holy…
Amen…
Amen…
Amen…
{Outro}
Lead (whispered)
The light never changed…
Only the glass.