Saturday 11 April 2009

While You Were Sleeping

My computer isn't loading YouTube right now, or I'd just post a video. Instead, I'll leave you with the lyrics to the song that I wanted to share...

While You Were Sleeping
Oh little town of Bethlehem
Looks like another silent night
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
A giant star lights up the sky
And while you're lying in the dark
There shines an everlasting light
For the King has left His throne
And is sleeping in a manger tonight
Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed
While you were sleeping
For God became a man
And stepped into your world today
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem
Looks like another silent night
The Father gave His only Son
The Way, the Truth, the Life had come
But there was no room for Him
in the world He came to save
Jerusalem, what you have missed
While you were sleeping
The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today
Jerusalem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night
America, what will we miss
While we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping
United States of America
Looks like another silent night
Tonight...

-Casting Crowns

2 comments:

  1. I love that song. Still don't have the sheet music for it. Still kicking myself about it.

    CC's my favorite band. *huggle* Happy Easter!

    -Kat

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  2. 'As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
    That save the trees and kill the children'

    Exactly. This is what makes me so mad at Greenpeace and the like and all the environmentalists weeping over polar bears. I mean, of course I don't want the bears to die, but look to your own children first, right? *huffs*

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