The Candle Is a Fool (country-rock version)

Inspired by The Candle Is a Fool: A Forty-Day Journey through the Passion of Jesus by David Thomas “The Candle Is a Fool” is a Christian story-song about a candle that gives everything it has simply to bring light to others. Told through the unlikely eyes of a sponge in a Roman soldier’s barracks on the night of Christ’s crucifixion, the song asks a challenging question: Is a life spent giving itself away foolish—or is that exactly what Jesus showed us how to do? “If the candle is a fool… let me be one too.”