Redemption Song 2026
Lyrics
[Intro – Spoken low over dark industrial drones and distant thunder, building tension like a storm rolling in]
In the shattered world where the negative forces prowl...
Gates and doors welded shut tight in the fallout veil...
Windows fastened down, no light gets in...
I spent the night in sleepless war, rising at every sin...
Half in hopeless sorrow, half in righteous rage...
Fearing the dawn would find the shadows breakin' through...
To drag us all away into the endless cage...
[Verse 1 – Fast rap flow, aggressive and street-raw, industrial beats grinding underneath]
Just before the sunrise cracks the poisoned crimson sky...
I heard something slammin' at the barricade, no lie...
The gate began to rattle like chains in a riot storm...
A voice cut through the static, callin' me home...
I rushed to the viewport, stared down into the ruined street...
Expectin' armored hordes with their torches of deceit...
The sound of soldiers' boots from the soulless elite...
But there was no one there but Mary, standin' fierce and complete...
So I went down to let her in, heart hammerin' like war drums...
John stood right beside me, fists clenched, ready to run...
She said they've moved him in the night, none of us know where...
The stone's been rolled away—and now his body's not there...
[Pre-Chorus – Building intensity, rapcore half-sung with rising guitars]
We both charged toward the garden of the fallen kings...
John blasted ahead on wings of broken things...
We found the stone and empty tomb, just the way that Mary said...
But the winding sheet they wrapped him in was just an empty shell...
How or where they'd taken the King... was more than I could tell...
Oh, something cosmic detonated there...
Just what I did not know... John believed a miracle...
But I was ready to burn it all... turn and go...
[Chorus – Full screamed gang vocals, orchestral swell into massive metalcore drop—epic, cinematic, fuck-the-darkness energy]
HE'S ALIVE! YEAH, HE'S ALIVE!
Yes, he's alive and I'm FORGIVEN!
Heaven's gates are BLOWN WIDE OPEN!
HE'S ALIVE (HE'S ALIVE!), yes he's ALIVE (HE'S ALIVE!)
Oh, he's alive and I'm forgiven!
Heaven's gates are open wide!
HE'S ALIVE, HE'S ALIVE!
HALLELUJAH, HE'S ALIVE!
He's alive and I'm forgiven!
Heaven's gates are open wide!
HE'S ALIVE (HE'S ALIVE!), he's ALIVE (HE'S ALIVE!)
I BELIEVE IT... HE'S ALIVE!
Sweet Jesus—RISE UP AND CRUSH THE DARK!
[Verse 2 – Slower, gangster swagger rap over grinding industrial bass, then accelerating into rage]
Circumstance and speculation couldn't lift me very high...
'Cause I'd seen them crucify him on the media's lie...
Watched the light fade out on that digital cross...
Back inside the bunker, guilt hit like a bomb...
Everything I'd promised him just added to my shame...
When the pressure came to choices, I denied I knew his name...
And even if he was alive... it wouldn't feel the same...
[Bridge/Breakdown – Slow heavy build, theatrical pause, then chaotic industrial explosion—screamed, raw, SOAD-style frenzy]
But suddenly the air exploded with that strange electric fire...
Light burst from everywhere, drove the shadows to the pyre...
And Jesus stood before me, arms open in the storm...
I fell down on my knees, clung to him, and cried out torn...
He raised me to my feet...
As I stared into his eyes...
The love exploded out like supernova skies...
Guilt in my confusion vanished in sweet release...
Every fear I'd ever had just MELTED into PEACE...
[Final Chorus/Outro – Epic orchestral + rap rock climax, ad-libs over the top: "Ward 'em off!" "Fuck the beasts!" "Light wins!" fading into triumphant cinematic roar]
He's alive, yes he's alive...
Yes, he's alive and I'm forgiven...
Heaven's gates are open wide...
He's alive, he's alive...
Hallelujah, he's alive...
He's alive and I'm forgiven...
Heaven's gates are open wide...
He's alive, he's alive...
I believe it, he's alive...
Sweet Jesus... THE BEASTS ARE GONE—THE LIGHT WINS!
(Yeah... in this post-apoc hell, the King's alive... warding off the lurking gloom with this war cry... AMEN to the power, the soul's on fire... our anthem for today—fuck the darkness, higher and higher!