Name: More Than A King (Live)
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Channel: Lonnie Crampsey
Description: "More Than A King (Live)" is a song by Lonnie Crampsey. From The perspective of the Soldier at the Cross

More Than A King (Live)

Lonnie Crampsey

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From The perspective of the Soldier at the Cross

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Lonnie Crampsey

Singer-Songwriter from New Hampshire

I'm a singer-songwriter from New Hampshire. My desire is to write songs about real life and tell stories. I hope above all else that God is seen and glorified by my simple expressions of music and the opening of my heart.

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Genre

Pop • Christian Pop

Charts

Peak #195

Peak in subgenre #35

Author

Lonnie Crampsey

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August 16, 2006

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MP3 3.6 MB • 128 kbps • 3:08

Story behind the song

One of my favorite things to do as a song writer is to put myself in the shoes of different Bible character's and try to relate to the situation and what they might have been thinking.  In this particular case, I was thinking about the soldier at the cross scene who took the days events in and then stood there at the end and claimed, " Surely this was a righteous man".   This song shows his change of heart as he comes face to face with the living king.

Lyrics

More Than A King
By Lonnie Crampsey


I'm quick to criticize
As I stand beneath this man whose just hanging there
The mockers patronize
You can see their anger shining through hateful stares
But me I'll just keep my mouth shut and just do my job
A soldier’s work is never done, hope this day won't be too long

I won't allow myself to feel
And I won't shed a single tear
Cause the burdens more then I can bare
That he actually might be a king
 	he actually might be a king

We start to drawing straws
So we can stake our claim to riches he never had
The rumbling skies grow dark
Am I soon to be a target of a god that's mad?
Could he really be the man that he claimed to be?
will his blood stained on my hands always be reminding me?

	I can't allow myself to feel
	I can't shed a single tear  
	The thought of it is more then I can bare
	That he actually might be a king
	That he actually might be my king




When He cried out to heaven for help
And his gaze pierced through my very soul
Then He asked for forgiveness for all
Saying, “Father they just didn't know”
Oh God I just didn't know

	So I'll allow myself to feel
	And I'll shed a million tears
	And in his death and life I 'll share
	And I know that He's more than a king
	I know that He's more than a king
	I know He's my God and my King

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