Born Free

If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? In the midst of evil on myself I cast blame For the miseries I witness upon these darker plains To live is Christ, they say to die is gain Freed calling on Jesus, saviour in a name For we are clay pots and as worthless as dust If in our flesh and our own minds we trust For there is a truth that in only one man was made To free us from sin and free us from this age If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free why I see prison bars? Babylon slaves selling themselves for flash cars Lying to the youth and sending them out to war If not to live free then what's my life for? For blessed is he who took up our cross Those his true children know as our true God Perfect yet treated with evil as of the rot Was risen to save us, the sinful and lost If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? Our burdens we carry, our will not our known For you we wait patiently, as our love is grown To love those who hate us, comfort those who mourn Love and forgive enemies and we'll be reborn For now as vessel of Christ we depart Each to our own path yes and narrow as a crack Though none will go with us, as we all venture through the dark We faithfully trust in the word of Jesus If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I was born free, why am I in chains? Though none go with me, I will follow Carrying the cross of pain, shame and sorrow Happily stand up ready to be brought low So come with me for a better tomorrow If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free, why am I in chains? If I'm meant to die then why suffer the pain? Made in the image of God why like a beast must I be tamed? To be glorified why must I first see my shame? If I was born free If I was born free If I was born free