What wisdom hangs a man up on a tree

As the only way to end my misery?

What kind of thinking made the way to heaven hard –

A crooked journey down a straight and narrow path?

CHORUS

How can I make sense of this?

I am living in God's foolishness

All the money and the power and the cleverness

Of this world, defeated by foolishness

Foolish things shame the kings

What wisdom puts the prophet in a desert place

Nobody to hear a single word he says?

And what wisdom brings reward from suffering

Where if I want to win I have to lose everything?

CHORUS

Cool water from a rock – salvation from a Nazarene

Dethroned for the unloved – a cross in the heart of God

CHORUS

I reasoned myself to death but

I was saved by foolishness

All my big ideas made such a mess

But I'm clean now, saved from foolishness

Foolish things made a king from a fool