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.
The reaper's at your door,
It's the end, there's no more,
The light makes you blind,
Deep in your heart you'll find,
The dead is what lays ahead,
In the future that you dread,
Now comes the time,
It's the end of the line,
You, who drove all my sorrows away,
You, who's rid my life of all this pain,
You, who's left me now and gone away,
You, who's happy in heaven I pray.
Since you've been gone,
The days seem so long,
The things that you said,
Keep running through my head,
I yearn for your touch,
This pain hurts so much,
Death would feel so right,
To fill the void you filled in my life,
You, who drove all my sorrows away,
You, who's rid my life of all this pain,
You, who's left me now and gone away,
You, who I'll join in heaven some day.