IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME (J.P. CONLEY – B.M.I.) © 1996 WHILE DOING ONLY GOOD, LOST SOULS TO WIN STILL AN ANGRY MOB TOOK HOLD OF HIM THE SON OF GOD, WHO KNEW NO SIN WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME CHORUS: I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE ON THE CROSS FOR ALL TO SEE HANGING THERE IN PAIN, IN SHAME, I’M GUILTY AS COULD BE I SHOULD HAVE BORE THE STRIPES THEY GAVE I SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONE THEY BEAT WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME UNTIL I KNELT THAT DAY MY FUTURE LOOKED SO BLEAK THEN SINS CONVICTION CAME AND BROUGHT ME TO MY KNEES AND WHEN I CALLED HIS NAME, JESUS CAME TO ME WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, IT SHOULD’VE BEEN ME CHORUS:
