Story Behind The Song
What came to me as I wrote this song was all the reasons people THINK Jesus came and the ONE REASON why he really came. It wasn't to be a good example or to be a teacher or to help us feel warm and fuzzy. It wasn't even to heal us. HE CAME TO DIE for y
Song Description
What did Jesus come to this earth for? To die. Nothing less and nothing more.
| Song Length |
4:49 |
Genre |
Rock - Religious |
| Tempo |
Medium Slow (91 - 110) |
Lead Vocal |
Female Vocal |
| Mood |
Disconcerted, Troubled |
Subject |
Rain, Femininity |
| Similar Artists |
Shawn Colvin, The Beatles |
Language |
English |
| Era |
2000 and later |
| |
Lyrics
Woman, you must be thirsty
or you wouldn?t be at this well.
You must be searching,
I can tell.
In the heat you walk so far ?
carrying that heavy jar.
Tell me, what did you come here for?
What did you come here for?
Man, you must be hurting
or you wouldn?t be at this pool.
Everyone who sees you
must take you for a fool.
Everyday you sit and wait ?
get on in, don?t hesitate.
What did you come here for?
If he can change the water into wine,
He can change a life like yours and mine.
He can make the blind to see,
the lame to walk,
set the captives free
Don?t you know he came to do
much more for you and me!
Some folks think he came here
just for teaching and for healing.
Others think he came to give
that warm and fuzzy feeling.
Oh, he calmed the sea
and he walked on water
Even raised from the dead
a man?s little daughter, but that?s
not what he came here for.
If you could ask him to his face ?
why on earth he joined the human race.
He would look you in the eye ?
and tell you that he came to die.
His life was not too great a cost
to seek and save what once was lost.
?Cause that?s what he came here for.
That?s what he came here for. . .
nothing less. . . nothing more. . .
Woman you must be searching. . .
Man you must be hurting. . .
You?re what he came here for. . .
© 2000 Pig?s Snout Music, Inc.
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