Bethlehem

Appears on: Freak CD2

      
               We all bear our crosses
               The marks of right and wrong
               Our stupid little victories
               That keep us carried on
               Yeah we all bear our contributions
               To the suffering of man
               But don't we all like to place the blame 
               On someone else's hands

               It's been written down in history books
               Been written down in song
               In a hundred million wasted lives
               That stretched the centuries long
               But still no-one was listening
               So you sent your only son
               As a sacrifice to a message
               And you called the message love

               And the message it screams out to us
               Down through two thousand years
               Two thousand years of suffering
               But still nobody hears
               And the blind man and the idiot
               Are the ones who wear the crown
               And the stories that they offer us
               Are the fear we've carried down
               And the cruel man who pulled the strings
               Is the one we did reward
               And the message is forgotten
               Did you die in vain my Lord?

               I give myself to you
               I give myself to you
               I offer up myself to you
               Til the pain shines through
               No human hand will ever do
               No human hand will ever do
               No human hand will ever do

               We all got our lessons
               To learn before we're dead
               We can choose to see their pain through 
               We can run away instead
               We can choose to move towards you
               We can move into ourselves
               And the choices that we're offered
               Are the freedom of our head
               And I wanna live in goodness
               And I want to try to learn
               And I wanna seek the truth now

               Yeah I don't wanna run
               I wanna try to love these others
               I wanna try to love myself
               You know without you I was nothing
               Lord, without you I was dead
               Without you I was dead     
 
               I give myself to you
               I give myself to you
               I offer up myself to you
               Til the pain shines through
               No human hand will ever do
               No human hand will ever do
               No human hand will ever do

               And the measure you give 
               Will be the measure you get
               It's just like you said
               That the measure you give
               Will be the measure you get
               We live one life
               One life to each remember
               The dust that you once came from
               Is the dust you will return to again

               We live one life
               One life to each remember
               The dust that you once came from
               Is the dust you will return to again
               Is the dust you will return to again
               Is the dust you will return to again
               Is the dust you will return to again