how can we ever learn the truth    if our teachers always lie?   when our feet are growing to the floor   how are we suppose to fly?      -chorus-   how can we get rich, when the men who pay are poor?   quickly grows our strength to leave   but faster grows the door   without Jesus, all you'll gain is distraction from the goal   without Jesus, all you are is man alone      all your wealth, all your power   all good to mankind you bring   without Jesus in your life, it all amounts to nothing   to the rich man, to the poor man   to the strong, and to the weak   without Jesus in your life, all you have is nothing      -chorus-      Jesus died so we might live   you don't have to only wish   that heaven is the result of faith in Him who made it   if they hadn't beat my Jesus, and stuck that thorny crown   He would have sprinted to that cross of pain   to have Himself nailed down   the answer lies to the One who stands on high