Am I a barren temple left for newer ways
of speaking mysteries my veils cannot contain?
Should I prepare to winter spans again
Of silent centuries pierced for only certain men?
What if I wake to find You’ve gone?
What if Your presence was withdrawn
And I was mistaken all along
to think I could become Your home?
It'd be no surprise to finally know
that I am truly alone
Come death but likely sooner
I'll be alone
You moved your temple inside our bones
And it's so hard to trust that You won't move again
For all eternity You stood with Your Father in perfect unity
And when You walked the earth
you only went where He led
you only spoke what He said
So for everything You left
and all of the glory You forfeit
no matter how low You were sent
you still couldn't know what it's like to be alone
Disgraced but You were never alone
Betrayed but You were never alone
Tortured but still never alone
and nothing is worse than being alone
I have been thinking hard
about us trading places
that maybe I could wear Your beauty
if You put on my shame
Jesus, I've been trying
so hard to look like You
that I almost missed the worst
of what I put You through
You didn't die for sins
You died covered in them
A prideful lying thief
gasping out my final breaths
For that one moment
you looked just like me
so Your father left You
and You died completely alone
For me, You were alone
He couldn't bear it so He left You all alone
No better promise than true sympathy
You conquered death all alone
'Cause You've known
the deepest of all our needs
Never again, never alone
