Spartan Songtext / Lyric

Billie Holiday on the radio.

My sluggish heart is beating seven beats too slow.

Another sad song and another shot of blue.

Cold and unconcerned are anything but new.

He said "Love endures all things",

and it hurts to think He's right;

If I mark the span of failure,

is his burden just as light?



chorus

I am, Spartan

Close my heart so tight.

Jesus,

Save me

From myself tonight






Limping through the world

there's a knowing look or two.

Is it just the cripples here

who understand the truth?

Why is love so painful?

Why do we always lose?

Paving pathways for the lost

the bitter, and recluse?

He said "Love endures all things",

and it hurts to think it's true.

Did it nail Him to a cross?

Did it crucify Him too?



bridge

The angels are singing over the plains.

The shepherds are quaking, echoing refrains.

And all of our slogans designed to take away the pain

meant nothing to the Son of God that night in Bethlehem.



repeat chorus