25 Days of Music | Day 20 – Watch the Lamb

Day 01 – Your favorite song
Day 02 – Your least favorite song
Day 03 – A song that makes you happy
Day 04 – A song that makes you sad
Day 05 – A song that reminds you of someone
Day 06 – A song that reminds you of somewhere
Day 07 – A song that you know all the words to
Day 08 – A song that you can dance to
Day 09 – A song that you played at your wedding
Day 10 – A song that you want to play at your funeral
Day 11 – A song that makes you think of your best friend
Day 12 – A song that is a guilty pleasure
Day 13 – A song that no one would expect you to love
Day 14 – A song that describes you
Day 15 – A song from your favorite album
Day 16 – A song from your favorite band
Day 17 – A song from a band you can’t stand
Day 18 – A song that makes you laugh
Day 19- A song that you wish you could play
Day 20 – A song from your childhood
Day 21- A song with great lyrics
Day 22- A song you love with no lyrics
Day 23 – A song that you can play on an instrument
Day 24 – A song that you could never get tired of
Day 25 – Your favorite song at this time last year

Watch The Lamb – Ray Boltz

Walking on the road to Jerusalem
The time had come to sacrifice again
My two small sons,
They walked beside me on the road
The reason that they came
Was to watch the lamb

CHORUS:
“Daddy, daddy what will we see there?
There’s so much we don’t understand”
So I told them of Moses
And Father Abraham
And then I said,
“Dear children, Watch the lamb

For there will be so many
In Jerusalem today
We must be sure the lamb
Doesn’t run away”

And I told them of Moses
And Father Abraham
And then I said,
“Dear children, Watch the lamb”

When we reached the city
I knew something must be wrong
There were no joyful worshippers
No joyful worship songs
I stood there with my children
In the midst of angry men
And then I heard the crowd cry out,
“Crucify Him!”

We tried to leave the city
But we could not get away
Forced to play in this drama,
A part I did not wish to play
Why upon this day
Were men condemned to die?
Why were we standing here
Where soon they would pass by?

I looked and said, “Even now they come”
The first one cried for mercy,
The people gave him none
The second one was violent,
He was arrogant and loud
I still can hear his angry voice
Screaming at the crowd

Then someone said, “There’s Jesus!”
And I scarce believed my eyes
A man so badly beaten,
He barely looked alive
Blood poured from His body,
From the thorns upon His brow
Running down the cross
And falling to the ground

I watched Him as He struggled
I watched Him as He fell
The cross came down upon His back,
The crowd began to yell,
In that moment I felt such agony,
In that moment I felt such loss,
Till the roman soldier grabbed my arm and screamed,
“YOU! Carry his cross!”

At first I tried to resist him,
But his hand reached for his sword,
So I knelt and I took
The cross from the Lord

I put it on my shoulders
We started down the street
And the blood that He’d been shedding,
Was running down my cheek…

They led us to Golgatha
They drove nails,
Deep in His feet and hands,
And on the cross,
I heard him pray,
“Father, forgive them…”

Never have I seen such love
In any other eyes
“Into thy hands I commit my spirit,”
He prayed,
And then He died.

I stood for what seemed like years,
I lost all sense of time,
Then I felt two tiny hands
Holding onto mine
My children stood there weeping,
And I heard the oldest say
“Father please forgive us,
The lamb,
Ran away…

Daddy daddy,
What’ve we seen here,
There’s so much that we don’t understand,”
So I took them in my arms,
We turned and faced the cross
And I said
“Dear children
Watch the lamb…”