Communion
Song Meaning
Third Day keeps this song close to the literal words spoken at the Lord's table — "this is the body, this is the blood, broken and poured out for all of us" — letting the language of the sacrament carry the weight instead of dressing it up further.
The verses turn that shared meal into personal memory rather than ritual alone: "I will remember everything, Lord, that You've done for me," Third Day sings, refusing to "take for granted the sacrifice that set me free." The hunger and thirst named here isn't for bread and wine specifically but for what they represent — "I hunger and thirst for Your love, come fill me today."
Jesus institutes that same meal in Matthew 26:26-28, calling the bread his body and the cup his blood "shed for many for the remission of sins," and Paul instructs the church to keep sharing it "in remembrance" of him in 1 Corinthians 11:25. Third Day's short, almost liturgical song functions the same way the meal itself does — less an argument than an act of remembering together.
This is the body
This is the blood
Broken and poured out
For all of us
In this communion
We share in His love
This is the body
This is the blood
I will remember everything, Lord
That You've done for me
I won't take for granted
The sacrifice that set me free
I hunger and thirst for Your love
Come fill me today
We hunger and thirst for Your love
And Your righteousness
We long for Your presence here, Lord
Be with us again