The Way Of The Cross Leads Home

I must needs go home by the way of the cross,
there's no other way but this;
I shall ne'er get sight of the gates of light,
if the way of the cross I miss.

Chorus:
The way of the cross leads home,
the way of the cross leads home,
it is sweet to know as I onward go,
the way of the cross leads home.

I must needs go on in the blood sprinkled way,
the path that the Saviour trod,
if I ever climb to the heights sublime,
where the soul is at home with God.

Then I bid farewell to the way of the world,
to walk in it never more;
For the Lord says, come, and I seek my home,
where He waits at the open door.