[Verse 1]
To the cross I look, and to the cross I cling
Of its suffering, I do drink, of its work I do sing
On it my Savior, both bruised and crushed
Showed that God is love and God is just
At the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love, I 'm
Sweetly broken, wholly surrendered
What a priceless gift, undeserved life
Have I been given through Christ crucified
You've called me out of death
You've called me into life
And I was under your wrath, now through the cross I'm reconciled
And at the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love, I 'm
Sweetly broken, wholly surrendered
At the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love, I 'm
Sweetly broken, wholly surrendered
In awe of the cross I must confess
How wondrous Your redeeming love and
How great is Your faithfulness
At the cross You beckon me
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love, I 'm
Sweetly broken, wholly surrendered
At the cross You beckon me, yeah
You draw me gently to my knees, and I am
Lost for words, so lost in love, I am
Sweetly broken, wholly surrendered
I'm broken for you, I'm broken for you, my Lord
Yeah
Jesus, what love is there
Oh, I am sweetly broken
Sweetly Broken
Song Meaning
Jeremy Riddle keeps "Sweetly Broken" fixed on a single location for its entire length — "to the cross I look, and to the cross I cling." The song doesn't move through a narrative arc; it stays in one posture, returning again and again to the same fixed point rather than progressing toward a resolution elsewhere.
"Showed that God is love and God is just" holds together two attributes the song refuses to separate, treating the cross as the place both are proven simultaneously rather than in tension. "You've called me out of death, You've called me into life... I was under Your wrath, now through the cross I'm reconciled" states the exchange in blunt legal terms rather than only emotional ones.
The title's paired words — sweetly, broken — sit deliberately close together throughout, refusing to let brokenness read as purely painful; "lost for words, so lost in love" frames the same moment of surrender as overwhelming in a way that resembles worship more than grief.