From the recording Empty
This song is from the standpoint of Mary Magdalene as she walked to the tomb that first Easter morning. While she may have started her journey confused, hurting, empty, what she found when she got there was much more than an empty tomb!!
Lyrics
I walk the streets,
The sun still sleeps and yet I can’t
So many things
That I still struggle to understand
The lame we’re healed
The blind got sight
And by your hands
The dead made alive
Oh why were you the only one you didn’t free
I know you said that this must be but still
I’m empty
I journey on
To the tomb where your body lay
In disbelief
I see the stone’s been rolled away
Oh why in death could they not even let you be
As I try to understand and breathe, I see
It’s empty
And as I knelt there in my grief
That familiar voice spoke to me
Woman, why do you weep?
Sin and death have no more sting
They’re empty
The grave has no victory
The dark will know defeat
Because that sacred tomb is empty
We don’t have to be
Empty
Filled with your hope
I am not Empty