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Jesus Was an Only Son

Music: Bruce Springsteen

Lyrics: Bruce Springsteen

Lyrics

Jesus was an only son as he walked up Calvary Hill, his mother Mary walking beside him in the path where his blood spilled Jesus was an only son in the hills of Nazareth, as he lay reading the Psalms of David at his mother's feet A mother prays, "sleep tight, my child, sleep well, for I'll be at your side, that no shadow, no darkness, no tolling bell shall pierce your dreams this night" In the garden at Gethsemane, he prayed for the life he'd never live, he beseeched his heavenly father to remove the cup of death from his lips Now, there's a loss that can never be replaced, a destination that can never be reached, a light you'll never find in another's face, a sea whose distance cannot be breached Well, Jesus kissed his mother's hands and whispered, "Mary, still your tears, for remember the soul of the universe willed a world and it appeared"