The Kiss (perf. by Dale King)
This is my good friend Dale King's setting to my lyric about that fateful Judas kiss.
. receive all glory, honor, and praise!
Story behind the song
Dale was my roommate in college and has put several of my lyrics to his music. This lyric, he says, is one of his favorite and while I have my own version of it, I thought this was a very good treatment of it.
Lyrics
"THE KISS IN THE GARDEN" by Jeff Leslie 3/9/95
From the start the Savior knew what was expected
For the prophecy was written on the wall
But His heart was unprepared and unprotected
For the kiss that was the cruelest cut of all
It wasn't the stripes He wore
It wasn't the crown of thorns
The cross upon His back was not His burden
And the wounded side
Did not create His cries
It was the kiss that He received in the garden
When the traitor sold his soul for so much silver.
I wonder if he ever thought of this
That his prize would have been life with the Savior.
If he'd only kept from giving Christ that kiss
It wasn't the stripes He wore
It wasn't the crown of thorns
The cross upon His back was not His burden
And the wounded side
Did not create His cries
It was the kiss that He received in the garden
So whenever I'm distracted by temptation
Or anything that turns my face from His
I remember I'm like Judas in the garden
When I sin, it's just like giving Christ that kiss
It wasn't the stripes He wore
It wasn't the crown of thorns
The cross upon His back was not His burden
And the wounded side
Did not create His cries
It was the kiss that He received in the garden
