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From Mark 15:26-52.

For “Gethsemane”, I tried to both describe what is happening and also capture the feeling and emotion and angst of what is happening. It might sound a little presumptuous, but put yourself in Jesus’s shoes on the night before he went to the cross, just for a minute. Late on Thursday night, and into the early morning on Good Friday…. He knows He is about to be betrayed by Judas, and He knows the painful death that approaches. It’s dark and growing darker, and the weight of what lies ahead lays heavy upon Him.

The song ends on Friday, and it doesn’t allude to Sunday at all. I think we often skip ahead to the end of the story – to the resurrection – without dwelling on the darkness and sadness of that Thursday and Friday. The cross Jesus carried was much more than just a physical object – it was all of our mess and sin and grief, and it was a heavy load to carry indeed.

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I climbed a mountain with three friends
Feel the darkness pressing in
I ask them to please stay awake
And I go off alone to pray

Father, please
Would you take this cup
It’s a heavy load to carry
But not my will
But what you want
Until I’m dead and buried

Sweat and blood they fall like tears
It seems the last star’s disappeared
Death it comes to separate
And my friends can’t stay awake

Father, please
Would you take this cup
It’s a heavy load to carry
But not my will
But what you want
Until I’m dead and buried

They came with clubs to capture me
An old friend he kissed my cheek
And all my friends they ran away
And i’m alone, denied, betrayed

Father, please
Would you take this cup
It’s a heavy load to carry
But not my will
But what you want
Until I’m dead and buried

My God, my God’s forsaken me
Hanging broken on a tree
Who can save you now they laugh
The darkness comes, I breath my last
Until I’m dead and buried

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from The Scripture to Music Project DEMOS [A Sides], released November 11, 2011

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Caroline Cobb Dallas, Texas

Before her thirtieth birthday, singer-songwriter Caroline Cobb set a goal to write a song for every book of the Bible in one year. That year set in motion a passion: to tell the stories of scripture through music, helping you rehearse and remember the good news of God's Story as you listen. ... more

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