La música cristiana es de origen judío: la liturgia musical de la sinagoga, en particular el canto psalmódico de los judíos como unidad poética musical, fue un legado preciado transmitido del Israel antiguo al cristianismo primitivo, como forma de manifestar tanto a nivel personal como comunitario las creencias religiosas y la fe en Dios.
A song ran in the oceans of color
Surrounded by the stars inside the universe
Before it bursted into light
And after a long time
A world came alive and played that music I first heard
And so I stayed so I could write down every word
And there was a garden
Never was such beauty seen in all the earth
And not again until the day when it returns
And there was a loud cry
Alive were the voices as they sang the words
And ever since they've been singing, it goes
Underneath where eyes don't go
A sound that keeps the beat that holds
Alive the song I listen close
Do I follow, do I follow, where it goes
Towers and banners raised
And kings with power changed that song that first began
And it was lost, and buried deep, and covered
Then, a chorus and angel lights
Proclaimed on that starry night that shook the world
A king arose, and he was singing, it goes
Underneath where eyes don't go
A sound that keeps the beat that holds
Alive the song I listen close
Do I follow, do I follow, where it goes