"Paint the Town Red" Released April 19, 2005
-Written by: T. Welbeck; Instrumentation Written and Arranged by: T. Chatmon-
Biblical References: Psalm 22:14-17, Isaiah 50:6, 52:13-14, 53, 59:2, Matthew 10-37-41, 12:30, 27-28, Mark 8:34-35, Luke 9:23, 22:53, John 10:17-18, Acts 2:23-24, Romans 1:17, 5:6-10, 16:13, II Corinthians 4:7-12, 5:21, Galatians 2:20, 6:14, Philippians 2:5-8, 3:7-10, Colossians 1:20, II Timothy 2:11, I Peter 1:7-16
Verse 1
Thoughts of living diminish, they’re forgone/As the nails are embedded in both of your forearms, and before long you know death’s awaiting/(Gasp), (Gasp), your breath’s escaping/In fact your lungs will collapse/Your chest will cave in/It’s hard to exhale, you yell your supplications/You suffer waiting/And now you’re suffocating/The crowd is so loud and you don’t know what they’re saying/Because you’re cold and naked, with both shoulders dislocated/Dying with rouge vagrants, oh so disgracing/What was up in His mind, He was so lovingly kind/To bear the weight of your sins when they were coupled with mine/Bruised battered and buffeted, and the crowd was loving it/”Crucify Him,” was the thing they coveted/Man was offered salvation because of what God’s beloved did/And all eternity altered because of it
Hook
The cross, you’re wondering what it means/I’m joined in the fellowship of the suffering of the King/It’s not a decoration, it’s a declaration/I’m joined in the fellowship of the cross that saves men
Verse 2
It was for your shortcomings that He ignored the humming/He bore the punching, the scourging and the tortuous thumping/He bought you joint-inheritance with His forehead lumping/The more the tale of the tale, the more the stunning/In short who will believe the report ushered forth about a dying Savior and now resurrected Lord, that He was scourged for fellowship with God and man/Left bleeding for the heathen and his ill-gotten plans/Who will believe, God’s only begotten seed would bleed just for people like you and me/For death one might partake for all of our sakes/If we were holy and righteous and just in our faith/But His life was rendered for the dying sinner/That we might find Christ and that He might find repenters/That Christ might forgive us, and we would be righteous livers/And forgo the carnal life we had to fight to give up
Hook
The cross, you’re wondering what it means/I’m joined in the fellowship of the suffering of the King/It’s not a decoration, it’s a declaration/I’m joined in the fellowship of the cross that saves men
Verse 3
Now daily my thoughts are crucified to the crossbar/And I toss far all carnal ways of living/I’m crucified with Christ that I might display His visage/It’s a sign of my death, not a graven image/So when you look at the cross, and you’re wondering what it means/I’m joined in the fellowship of the suffering of the King/It’s not a decoration, it’s a declaration/I’m joined in the fellowship of the cross that saves men/
© 2005
