When He Was On the Cross (I Was On His Mind)

Sue Dodge keeps the crucifixion scene visually specific in "When He Was On The Cross (I Was On His Mind)" — "a look of love was on his face, the thorns upon his head, the blood ran down that sacred face, its stain was crimson red." The physical details aren't softened into generality.

"I'm not on an ego trip, I'm nothing on my own, I've made mistakes, and often slipped, I'm just common flesh and bone" undercuts any sense of self-importance before making the song's actual claim, which only lands as strange precisely because the singer has just described being ordinary. "He knew me, yet he loved me" states the paradox plainly rather than explaining it away.

"His eyes were on the crowd that day, Jesus looked ahead in time, for when he was on the cross, you and I were on his mind" closes by widening the personal claim of the chorus into a direct address to the listener, extending the same specific attention across time to whoever hears the song.