I WAS THE TREE — BibleWithLife | Christian Worship Music

I WAS THE TREE
BibleWithLife

[Spoken Word Intro, female voice, atmospheric, distant Roman drums, wind]

I was just a tree.
Then they made me a sentence.
Then He made me a throne.
[Verse 1, female lead, sparse acoustic guitar fingerpicking, intimate]

They shaped my beams, they sharpened my end
I was built to break a guilty man
I waited in the dark, for a thief, for a name
For somebody's son, with somebody's shame
But the man they brought, didn't fight, didn't run
He just looked at me
Like the day I was sown, He had known my name
[Pre-Chorus, female lead with male harmony entering, low cello drone, building]

He picked me up, like He'd done it before
Every step, He bled into my grain
Every fall, He carried my name
[Chorus, female lead, full band, military snare enters, anthemic but restrained]

I thought I was a weapon
He made me a road
I thought I was a grave
He made me a throne
The wood that was cursed
Was the wood that He chose
I was the tree
Where the Saviour rose
[Verse 2, female lead with male harmony on background images, drums steady, low strings]

I felt the whip, before I felt the nail
I felt His breath, go shallow and pale
[Male voices, group harmony, background crowd effect]

The sky went black


And a hardened man believed
[Female lead returns]

But He looked up and said
[Male solo voice, reverent]

"It is finished"
[Female lead]

And the ground understood before I did
[Bridge, drop to single piano and heartbeat kick, female lead intimate]

For three days, I stood empty on the hill
The blood had dried, the world moved on
And I was just, a tree, again
[2 beat silence, just heartbeat kick]

[Female lead, building, strings swell]

But then I heard, the stone, roll
And I understood, what I held
I wasn't the end
I was the door
I wasn't the curse
I was where mercy roared
[Climax, female belt, full band crash, gospel choir enters]

DEATH DIDN'T WIN ON ME
HE ROSE THROUGH ME!
[Final Chorus, female lead with full gospel choir, key change up half step, maximum energy]

I thought I was a weapon
He made me a road
I thought I was a grave
He made me a throne
The wood that was cursed
Was the wood that He chose
I was the tree
That the Saviour rose through
[Tag, choir builds then softens, female lead soars]


I was the tree, I was the tree
The Saviour rose through me
I was the tree, I was the tree
The Saviour rose through me
[Whispered, female voice, intimate]

I was just a tree...
[Outro Spoken Word, female voice, soft strings, dawn-like synth pad]

They took me down
They buried me
Death held the King for a moment
But it could not keep Him
[Whispered]

He rose through me