♪♫ You were once my Friend

MY FRIEND, I STAND IN JUDGMENT NOW

AND FEEL THAT YOU’RE TO BLAME SOMEHOW

ON EARTH I WALKED BESIDE YOU DAY BY DAY

YOU COULD HAVE LED ME STRAIGHT TO HIM

MY KNOWLEDGE THEN WAS VERY DIM

BUT NEVER ONCE DID YOU SHOW ME THE WAY

I CALLED YOU FRIEND BUT THAT WAS THEN

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND BEST OF FRIENDS

LIVING HERE ON GOD'S CREATED EARTH

BUT NOW I KNOW THAT ITS TOO LATE 

YOU COULD HAVE KEPT ME FROM THIS FATE

YOU NEVER TOLD ME OF THE SECOND BIRTH

1ST CHORUS

AND NOW I’M LOST FOREVER I’M BURNING IN THIS AWFUL PLACE

I’M SUFFERING SO MUCH PAIN HERE AND THRU IT ALL I SEE YOUR FACE

I’M GLAD YOU’RE BOUND FOR HEAVEN AND YOU WON’T REACH THIS BITTER END

OH IT’S SO HARD TO STAY HERE – KNOWING THAT YOU WERE ONCE MY FRIEND

YOU TAUGHT ME MANY THINGS THAT’S TRUE

I CALLED YOU FRIEND, I TRUSTED YOU

WE WALKED BY DAY AND TALKED A LOT AT NIGHT

BUT NOW I KNOW THAT IT’S TOO LATE

YOU COULD HAVE KEPT ME FROM THIS FATE

AND SHOWN ME HOW TO WALK IN PATHS OF LIGHT

OH THAT YOU LET ME LIVE AND LOVE AND DIE

YOU KNEW I’D NEVER LIVE ON HIGH

SO NOW I STAND THIS DAY AT LAST CONDEMNED.

YES, I CALLED YOU MY FRIEND IN LIFE

AND TRUSTED YOU THRU JOY AND STRIFE,

BUT NOW I SEE THAT YOU WERE NOT MY FRIEND.

2ND CHORUS

SO TELL OUR FRIENDS ABOUT THE LORD SO THEY WILL MISS THIS AWFUL PLACE.

SO THEY WON’T SUFFER SO MUCH PAIN, AND IN THEIR SUFFERING SEE YOUR FACE

I'M GLAD YOU’RE BOUND FOR HEAVEN AND YOU WON’T REACH THIS BITTER END

BUTS IT’S SO HARD TO STAY HERE – KNOWING THAT YOU WERE ONCE MY FRIEND 

PLEASE BRING YOUR FRIENDS TO JESUS AND THEN THEY’LL ALWAYS CALL YOU FRIEND

This song should wake us true Christians up. To many Christians go through life saying that they will "live like a christian" (or maybe not even that) but never truly tell their friends the way to heaven. We are not talking about the stranger but the friends you hang out with all the time. Can you talk about everything with them but you won't tell them the way to heaven? Do you really want their blood on your hands when they burn in hell forever? 

I don't!