FATHER
Son, My Son, How can I send you down there?
To a world of despair?
They’ll mock you, deride you, for you they will not care
Can you in their flesh share?
SON
Father, I know you love them much
They need your gentle touch
You need not sorrow over me
Because if I go, some will be free
MARY, Mother of Jesus
Joseph, how can you leave me now?
Don’t leave me with this child alone
I’ve been faithful to you, and faithful to God too
Oh Father, help me go on.
PETER
Master, oh oh what have I done?
I denied you thrice before the rising sun.
And now as I watch them taking you away
I know I can’t live without you, please stay!
CHORUS
Partings fill the universe with sorrow
Until that bright tomorrow
So in all your partings have hope beyond the fears
That in the earth made new there’ll be no death or tears.
MARY, Mother of Jesus
Son, my Son, how can I bear to see
My son, hanging on a tree?
If your life is gone, I know I can’t go on
Oh is this really happening to me?
MARY MAGDALENE
My Lord is gone, where have they laid You down?
I thought You’d always be around.
The tears that washed your feet are now muddying the ground
I feel so lost, can I be found?
NEW HOPE
Lord, our Lord, are we following your plan,
To leave the place where we began?
Guide us on the way, to a better land
Give us hope our time will come again.
CHORUS
Partings fill the universe with sorrow
Until that bright tomorrow
So in all your partings have hope beyond the fears
That in the earth made new there’ll be no death or tears.
July 19, 1985 Larry and Lynn Pahl, last verse added August 26, 2012, at final New Hope service in the barn…