Nailed Down

Colossians 2:13-15 Complete re-recording uploaded 12/17/15 - final version, I hope. Lyrics: In the heart of man / There is a book of ten words Placed inside by God Himself on the last day of making the world But we set fire to its pages / And scuffed and blurred the lines We've hated its reminders / Acting deaf and blind But how can we recover / Dead sinners that we are For as long as we are guilty / Heaven's gates are barred But God knew we would be here / Unable to stand Buried by the law we broke / With our calloused hands It would take a Son to save us / And so a Son He sent Perfection sacrificed for every evil thing we meant And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown He took it in his hands / And nailed it down What else can we say? How is it we can be so close / And yet so far away Our hearts of stone are distant from these righteous words we say The dead can never earn life / We don't deserve his death His lonely substitution / His very last breath And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown He took it in his hands / And nailed it down What else can we say? What else could we see? Just a man that we killed, that we murdered Nailed to a tree to curse His death and His life What was there to see? Just a man that we killed, that we murdered Nailed to a tree to curse His death and His life In the heart of man / There is a book of ten words Perfectly kept only once by the same hands that made the world And while we were busy cursing / And the devil thought he'd won This silent lamb was bleeding out for every chosen one And the law that stands against us / The sea in which we drown He took it in his hands / And nailed it down