Verse 1
The seats of the scoffers are emptier now (Ps. 1:1)
You see, they no longer have mine
And out in the pigpen where prodigals hide
There’s nobody tending the swine (Luke 15:11-32)
Chorus
Why seek ye a blind man once Jesus gives sight (Matt. 9:27-30, Matt. 12:22, Matt. 20:29-34, Mark 8:22-25, Mark 10:46-52, Luke 18:35-43, John 9:6-7, John 9:25)
Or starving once Jesus gives bread (John 6:35, Matt. 14:13-21, Matt. 15:32-38, Mark 6:30-44, Mark 8:1-9, Luke 9:10-17, John 6:1-14)
When the blood cleanses sinners, no life stays the same (I John 1:7, Rev. 1:5, Rev. 7:14)
Why seek ye the living among the dead (Luke 24:5)
Verse 2
Don’t offer the leeks and the onions I ate (Num. 11:5)
In the years of my captivity
For I’ve traded the pleasures of sin for a land (Heb. 11:25)
Where the milk and the honey flow free (Ex. 3:8, Ex. 3:17, Ex, 13:5, Ex. 33:3, Lev. 20:24, Num. 13:27, Num. 14:8, Num. 16:13-14, Deut. 6:3, Deut. 11:9, Deut. 26:9, Deut. 26:15, Deut. 27:3, Deut. 31:20, Josh. 5:6, Jer. 11:5, Jer. 32:2, Ezek. 20:6, Ezek. 20:15)
Repeat chorus
Verse 3
When death comes to silence my tongue and my eyes
Don’t think I will stay with the dead
For when Jesus calls me to rise from the tomb (John 5:25-28, I Cor. 4:16-17)
I’ll feast at the table He spread (Rev. 19:9)
Repeat chorus
Tag
And at the final trumpet sound I’ll be risen as He said (I Cor. 11:52, I Cor. 4:16-17)
Why seek ye the living among the dead