It Was For Me

[00:16.63] Why leave a heav’nly mansion?

[00:23.54] Why choose a simple stall?

[00:29.65] Why wander poor and homeless,

[00:34.96] The King and Lord of all?

[00:41.07] Why heal a lonely beggar?

[00:46.65] Why cause the blind to see?

[00:52.49] The Light of all creation,

[00:58.07] Shining there for me?

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[01:01.25] It was for me He cried, for me He died,

[01:07.90] for me He shed His blood upon the tree.

[01:12.42] It was for me He came, for me His shame;

[01:19.33] For me, oh praise His name, it was for me.

[01:32.87] Why stay in Olive’s garden?

[01:38.44] Why spend the night in prayer?

[01:43.76] Why suffer such betrayal

[01:49.61] In anguish kneeling there?

[01:55.45] Why leave His mother crying?

[02:00.76] Why set Barabbas free?

[02:06.60] The spotless Lamb of heaven

[02:12.18] Given there for me.

[02:17.23] Why climb that dreadful mountain?

[02:19.88] Why suffer agony?

[02:22.28] Why give His blood a fountain,

[02:25.19] Spilled and broken, flowing free?

[02:28.12] When He walked the road to Calv’ry,

[02:31.03] Gave His life so willingly,

[02:33.43] Broken there, the Rose of Sharon died for me.

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[02:38.47] It was for me He cried, for me He died,

[02:44.86] for me He shed His blood upon the tree.

[02:49.63] It was for me He came, for me His shame;

[02:56.27] For me, oh praise His name, it was for me.

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[03:09.82] The King who came from heaven,

[03:15.14] To the cry, “There is no room,”

[03:21.24] Now must lay His weary body

[03:26.83] In a cold and borrowed tomb.

[03:32.40] But the grave, it would not hold Him;

[03:38.24] Death lost its victory.

[03:43.82] The risen Lord of glory

[03:48.87] is living now for me.

[03:55.77] It was for me He cried, for me He died,

[04:02.68] for me He shed His blood upon the tree.

[04:07.20] It was for me He came, for me His shame;

[04:14.36] For me, oh praise His name,

[04:27.26] it was for me.