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Peak #10
Peak in subgenre #3
Author
Jeff Leslie
Uploaded
August 27, 2017
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MP3 8.6 MB • 148 kbps • 8:11
Story behind the song
I wrote Eli when I was in high school and never felt that it was finished. So I wrote You Did It All For Me when I was in college and created a medley.
Lyrics
"ELI, ELI WHY DID YOU FORSAKE ME"
by Jeff Leslie 1975
Picture, if you can, Jesus Christ upon the cross
What would you have done if you were there
Would you have been among the ones who put this Man to shame
Or praying with the very few who cared
What if you had witnessed the pain and the disgrace
Nails in hands and thorns upon His head
Everyone was staring if not laughing in His face
Then He spoke and this is what He said
Eli, Eli, Why did you forsake me
Please come and take me from this world
It is done, My life on earth is through here
There's nothing I can do here any more
Did you ever take a nail and press it in your hand
Imagine all the pain if it went through
There He was, the key to get into the promised land
No one listened, what else could He do
Eli, Eli, Why did you forsake me
Please come and take me from this world
It is done, My life on earth is through here
There's nothing I can do here any more
"YOU DID IT ALL FOR ME"?
by Jeff Leslie 1977
If I could know the pain You bore
If I should wear that crown of thorns
If down my side that blood would pour
I'd understand Your love
If spikes went through my hands and feet
And mockery came from all I'd meet
If I had tasted Your defeat
I'd understand Your love
But I don't think I would have been as brave as You were
I'd taken an easier way. Not so great a price to pay
The choice I would have made would not be torture
I probably wouldn't live to face that day
But no, You did it all for me. Lord, you did it all
You felt for me that pain and were so ridiculed and shamed
But yet, You did it all for me. Lord, you did it all
Forsaken by your friends, though you died for all their sin
If I could give the love you've shown
To all of those who've never known
And tell them all how much I've grown
They'd understand Your love
If I could tell them all You've done
In Your defeat and how You won
And all they get is they'd just come and understand your love
And how You did it all for them. Lord, you did it all
You felt for them that pain and were so ridiculed and shamed
But yet, You did it all for us. Lord, you did it all
Forsaken by your friends, though you paid the price for all their sin
And the reason that You did You knew just how it was to end
For You would live and there'd be victory over death forevermore
You'd live and every sacrifice is paid and paid in full
Yes, You did it all at once for anyone who will receive
You did it once for all who will believe
Believe that You live and now there's victory over death forevermore
You live and every sacrifice is paid and paid in full
Yes, You did it all at once for anyone who will receive
You did it once, did it once and for all who will believe
Who will believe!
