Billie Holiday on the radio

My sluggish heart is beating seven beats too slow

Another sad song and another shot of blue

Cold and unconcerned are anything but new

He said love endures all things, and it hurts to think He's right

If I mark the span of failure

Is his burden just as light?



I am, Spartan

Close my heart so tight

Jesus

Save me

From myself tonight



Limping through the world

There's a knowing look or two

Is it just the cripples here

Who understand the truth?

Why is love so painful?

Why do we always lose?

Paving pathways for the lost

The bitter, and recluse?

He said love endures all things, and it hurts to think it's true

Did it nail Him on a cross?

Did it crucify Him too?



I am, Spartan

Close my heart so tight

Jesus

Save me

From myself tonight



The angels are singing over oe'r the plains

The shepherds are quaking, echoing refrains

And all of our slogans, designed to take away the pain

Meant nothing to the Son of God that night in Bethlehem



I am, Spartan

Close my heart so tight

Jesus

Save me

From myself tonight