- Injection so lethal, injection so cruel
- Not a fair fight, not a real duel
- Poison flowed deep, running through veins
- Destroying his body, extinguished his brain
- He was hung and drawn and chopped in four
The executioner happy to face the gore
His body was hacked and sawn and cut
The soil would mix with blood and gut
On a block of wood his neck was laid
As the guillotine fell the debt was paid
To this abomination he would submit
The severed head and his backbone split
The flames rose high as mankind stooped low
His body and face began to glow
The flames would blacken and singe and burn
The salvation of sinners this act would earn
The firing squad would lift their guns
To make us daughters, to make us sons
The bullets flew towards his chest
No time to make a last request
The Saviour stood as he faced the grave
A suffering servant to release the slaves
Sticks and stones would break his bones
'Father forgive' were the words that he groaned
His hands were tied, his legs were bound
His affliction great, his pain profound
His body shook and the enemy crowed
His faculties stopped as the current flowed
The gallows rose tall as the Father looked down
Deserving a robe, deserving a crown
The Saviour fell quick, his neck in the noose
His love so extreme, his grace so profuse
The King of the Jews in the chamber of gas
Not on his own but part of the mass
Unspeakable hatred, ineffable love
Tears from the many, tears from above
We sing of the cross, we sing of the nails
The melody sweet, the music prevails
The horror of torture, the terror of death
Air for our singing or last chance of breath
How great was his longing to set us all free
He looked to his Father and then bowed his knee
He went on the death-march, his humanity faced
With the joy set before him the cross he embraced
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