He's Alive

The gates and doors were barred and all the windows fastened down I spent the night in sleeplessness and rose at every sound Half in hopeless sorrow and half in fear, the day Would find the soldiers breaking through to drag us all away Then just before the sunrise, I heard something at the wall The gate began to rattle, and a voice began to call I hurried to the window and looked down to the street Expecting swords and torches and the sound of soldiers feet But there was no one there but Mary, so I went down to let her in John stood there beside me as she told us where she'd been She said, "They moved him in the night and none of us knows where Oh, the stones been rolled away, and now his body isn't there" So we both ran toward the garden, then John ran on ahead We found the stone and the empty tomb just the way that Mary said But the winding sheet they wrapped him in was just an empty shell And how or where they'd taken him, it was more than I could tell Perhaps something strange had happened there, just what I did not know John believed a miracle, but I just turned to go Circumstance and speculation couldn't lift me very high 'Cause I'd seen them crucify Him and then saw Him die Back inside the house again, the guilt and anguish came Everything I'd promised Him just added to my shame When at last it came to choices, I denied I knew His name And even if He was alive, it could never be the same Then suddenly the air was filled with a strange and sweet perfume Light that came from everywhere drove shadows from the room Then Jesus stood before me with His arms held open wide And I fell down on my knees and clung to Him and cried Then He raised me to my feet and as I looked into His eyes Love was shining out from Him like sunlight from the sky Guilt and my confusion disappeared in sweet release And every fear I'd ever had just melted into peace 'Cause He is (alive and alive, He's alive, alive, and alive, He's alive) (Alive and alive, He's alive, He's alive) He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven Heavens gates are open wide He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven Heavens gates are open wide He's alive (He's alive), He's alive (He's alive), He's alive (He's alive), and I'm forgiven Heavens gates are open wide He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven Heavens gates are open wide He's alive He's alive (He's alive), He's alive (He's alive), He's alive (He's alive), and I'm forgiven Heavens gates are open wide He's alive, He's alive, He's alive, and I'm forgiven (He's alive) Heavens gates are open wide He's alive