Song title: BECAUSE HE LIVES…words and music—©1993, 2015 Elton Houck (ASCAP) /China Co-Op Music Publishing…reprint from this author’s book “THE 6TH DAY—Exiled from the garden” –Outskirts press© 2015 Elton Houck/ ……………………………………………………… “BECAUSE HE LIVES”……../ VERSE 1:…We ran and did hide/In fear for our lives/Even I who claimed to love Jesus so/Denied Him, saying this man I don’t know/…………. VERSE 2:…Bitter tears I cried/Pain I could not hide My heart was broken and I could not see/How my Lord ever loved a man like me/……………. CHORUS:…I could see his sad eyes staring at me/As I denied Him/And told them, “Let me be!”/Although my fear made me run away/Shame would not stay/Jesus’ love, oh they could not slay/Because He lives/I’m forgiven today/Because He lives, I’m forgiven today/Because He lives—I’m forgiven today/…….. VERSE 3:…They crucified Him/In a tomb he lay/But something strange happened on the third day/The tomb was empty, the stone rolled away/…….. VERSE 4:…Then Jesus appeared/Wiped away my tears/I touched the nail scars in His hands and feet/My heart was mended when Jesus forgave me/…… SPEAKING DIALOGUE---- I saw Him ascend then, and I Peter, even I will see Him come again. Until that day, I will stay a fisher of men.//\\\\................... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------note___ Original photos (2 combined) I took in 2006 with a Canon AE 1P using a 80/200 telephoto lens shooting lights at night while rotating the field of vision,,,Next-stage 2 (c) 2021 -a digital overpainting of the backdrop only--original images not altered. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ========--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------