Carpenter Gone Bad

CARPENTER GONE BAD?

Bob Bennett

(c) 1979 Maranatha! Music (ASCAP)

There's a man down in the street

Says he's the Messiah

Telling people he is the Chosen One

Says that He is in the Father

And the Father's in the Son

Empty nets made full of fish

And blind eyes that see

Didn't he used to work with wood in Galilee?

Now he's in the synagogue

Telling people they are wrong

To live as whitewashed tombs

Full of dead men's bones

Some say he is the Son of God

Others laugh and call him mad

Well do you think he's who they say he is

Or just a carpenter gone bad?

People talking about him wherever I go

They say he teaches with authority

Is there something I don't know?

The say it is his fervent prayer

That we stay in the Father's care

And believe that he is the Word made man

Some say he is the Son of God

Others laugh and call him mad

Well do you think he's who he says he is

Or just a carpenter gone bad?