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While You Were Sleeping Tab

by Casting Crowns




                      
      Oh little town of Bethlehem
                              
Looks like another silent night
                            
Above your deep and dreamless sleep
                              
A giant star lights up the sky
                             
And while you're lying in the dark
                                 
There shines an everlasting light
                          
For the King has left His throne
                               
And is sleeping in a manger tonight

                                                
Oh Bethlehem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
                 
For God became a man
                          
And stepped into your world today
                                  
Oh Bethlehem, you will go down in history
                              
As a city with no room for its King
                     
While you were sleeping
                   
While you were sleeping

Oh little town of Jerusalem
Looks like another silent night
The Father gave His only Son
The Way, the Truth, the Life had come
But there was no room for Him in the world He came to save

Jerusalem, what you have missed while you were sleeping
The Savior of the world is dying on your cross today
Jerusalem, you will go down in history
As a city with no room for its King
While you were sleeping
While you were sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night
As we're sung to sleep by philosophies
That save the trees and kill the children
And while we're lying in the dark
There's a shout heard 'cross the eastern sky
For the Bridegroom has returned
And has carried His bride away in the night

America, what will we miss while we are sleeping
Will Jesus come again
And leave us slumbering where we lay
America, will we go down in history
As a nation with no room for its King
Will we be sleeping
Will we be sleeping

United States of America
Looks like another silent night