Joseph

Joseph, Did you want to pack your tools

Head to someplace where nobody whispered, "There goes Mary's fool"

Joseph, Did you look up and raise your hands

Praying, "God, you know I've always tried to be a righteous man", Joseph

Joseph, did you lie awake confused,

thinkin 'bout the small town scandal and what loves supposed to do, Joseph

If you felt you've been betrayed

Still you didn't walk by feelings, but you chose to walked by faith, Joseph

You couldn't take her as your wife

wouldn't let harm come to her

You looked beyond the shame and stood between her and an angry world

And you made no accusations, so no one could raise a stone

Did you feel so hurt, confused and all alone

Joseph, did you wake up and want to scream,

"God, are you really speaking through some angel in a dream"

Joseph, did it all just seem absurd

That your wife might be the one to fulfill the prophet's words, Joseph

You denied yourself for others

Obeyed when nothing much made sense

You were a strength and shelter

On the road to bethlehem

And kneeling by the manger

Bathed in soft starlight

Did you know who's face you touched that holy night

Joseph, I hope to sit with you one day

and hear you tell me all about the choices you were called to make

Joseph, It was you and no one else

that God had trusted to take care of Mary and Himself

Joseph, Joseph, It was you, Joseph

hmmm, hmmm

It was you, Joseph

God trusted

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Lyrics submitted by John Mills.