This week, as a part of our new Excellent Songs series, we're looking at Caroline Cobb's "The Passover Song." This song draws on two Biblical narratives at the same time: the liberation of Israel from slavery in Egypt through the Passover, and the salvation of sinful humans by Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God.
Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VjILH2YNUc
Caroline Cobb: https://www.carolinecobb.com/
Song Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiAUuroWHEo
Lyrics (and other details from Caroline Cobb's bandcamp; edits marked in square brackets):
Words and music by Caroline Cobb and Sean Carter
Written January 11-14, 2013
Exodus 12 (See also John 1:29, Hebrews 10:20)
There’s a promise in our veins
But it’s faded by all these years in chains
Send a prophet, send the plagues
That by sunrise we will no more be slaves
Take the lamb, take the blood
And paint it on our doorways
At night death will come but pass us by
This is all our hope and peace
In the morning we will rise
Taste the freedom we thought we’d never find
We will dance now in the streets
Once held captive now we shall live as kings
Lift your head, your voice
And sing of your salvation
Of the blood of the lamb that gave us life
Now by this we’ll overcome
Now by this we’ll reach our home
There’s a poison in our veins
And it leads to death we cannot escape
Send a ransom a perfect Son
Remedy the curse with [sung: by] His precious blood
And the Lamb that will come
His cross will be our doorway
And the red of His blood [sung: it w]ill make us white
And [sung: the] daughters and sons
Rejoice in resurrection
And death swallowed up in endless life
Glory, glory this I sing
All my praise for this I bring
Naught of good that I have done
Nothing but the blood of Jesus
