Easter 2010

Who can believe what we have heard?
A hanged man died and deified;
Isn’t this story a bit absurd?
The whole world saw him crucified.

The hanged man died and deified
Belonged to us as one of our own;
The whole world saw him crucified.
A man as common as a stone

Belonged to us as one of our own.
Bore dignity beyond the skies,
This man as common as a stone.
We could not see through his disguise

His dignity beyond the skies.
Enmeshed, begrimed in politics,
We could not see by his disguise
An excellence that would bollix

The powers meshed in politics.
The holy struggle to revive
An excellence that should bollix
those who rule and now deprive

The holy struggling to revive.
They'll stand at last to fill their lungs.
Those who rule will be deprived
but will praise God with splintered tongues.

They'll also stand and fill their lungs.
And no one dares call it absurd;
Their praising God with splintered tongues.
Who would believe what we have heard?