Dmitri's Song (Jesus Is Alive)

My name is Dmitri, I was born a Russian man I was a factory worker until nineteen sixty and I Started teaching the Bible to my two little boys And that's when the journey began Well our house became a church And the Sunday School grew Had a hundred and fifty before we knew it But the KGB didn't want God around Seventeen years they locked me up a thousand miles away This is my heart song And I will stand and sing For I am a son of the living King So when the fire comes I'll be rejoicing Yeah, even when I suffer I'll be singing Oooooh Jesus is alive Oooooh Jesus is alive Despite fifteen hundred prisoners Criminal to the core Who'd laugh and curse And bang their cups and try to drown me out Like clockwork every morning With the rising of the sun I'd stand and raise my hands And sing my heart song up to God This is my heart song And I will stand and sing For I am a son of the living King So when the fire comes I'll be rejoicing Yeah, even when I suffer I'll be singing Oooooh Jesus is alive Oooooh Jesus is alive Believers stand for what you believe Faint not in adversity If you are cursed for Jesus' name Don't give up No, don't give up Well they tried to break me But I wouldn't give in And as they came to drag me out For my execution I heard a choir of angels Yeah, murderers and thieves Those fifteen hundred criminals Had risen up for me They raised their hands and sang the song My father taught me The sweetest sound I ever heard Yeah, I heard freedom ring Oh, let it ring This is my heart song And I will stand and sing For I am a son of the living King So when the fire comes I'll be rejoicing Yeah, even when I suffer I'll be singing Oooooh Jesus is alive Oooooh Jesus is alive Oooooh Jesus is alive Oooooh Jesus is alive