[Intro - warm and slow, intimate, a softly fingerpicked acoustic]

[Verse 1 - the reproach he carried]
I have carried a reproach a long time now, I carried it through this record
The names, the shut doors, the cold yard, the camps that would not have me
And I used to think the reproach was mine, my own load to bear in the dark
Just the cost of being campless
Just the bill that I was paying

[Verse 2 - whose reproach it is]
But the Book has a word about the reproach that the campless have to carry
It does not call it mine at all, it calls it something else
It says when I go outside the camp I go bearing His reproach
The reproach I thought was only mine
Was His reproach all along

[Chorus]
And that changes everything out here
That changes everything
The reproach is not a load I carry by myself in the dark
It is the very thing He carried, it is the bond between us now
My wounds and His wounds match
Bearing His reproach
And the cost turned out to be the communion

[Verse 3 - not a new camp]
And do not hear me say I found another camp out past the gate
I did not join a thing, there is no fence and there is no roll
There is only Him, and me, and the same reproach across us both
It was never a camp, it was a Person
And the reproach is how I know that I am with Him

[Bridge - Moses, the company]
And Moses knew it long ago, he sat and counted up the cost
And he called the reproach of Christ a greater treasure than all of Egypt
Every man who ever bore a true reproach was bearing His
The campless and the homeless
We have been keeping Christ's own company

[Final and Outro]
So let them keep the reproach coming, I know now what it is
It is not the mark of a man cast out, it is the mark of a man with the Lord
Bearing His reproach
Outside the camp
And I would not put it down
Not for the warmest welcome in the world