[Intro - spare and grave, a single low guitar, the voice entering close]

[Verse 1 - the campless place, Hebrews 13]
This whole record I have stood outside, out past the camp, in the cold
Where the offerings were carried out and burned beyond the gate
The unclean ground, the reproach ground, the place a man is sent
When the camp has had enough of him
I always thought that it was exile

[Verse 2 - he lifts his head]
But I lifted up my head one day and I looked hard at the ground
And the ground out here was beaten down, there was a road worn through the cold
There were marks out here that I did not make, from a long time before me
Somebody had been led out here
Somebody came this way before

[Chorus - Hebrews 13:13]
Outside the camp
Outside the camp
They led the Lord of Glory out beyond the city gate
He suffered there, outside the wall, to make His people clean
So let us go forth unto Him
Outside the camp
The campless ground was holy ground
He was always outside the camp

[Verse 3 - the turn]
So the camps that thought they cast me out, they did not understand
A man they put outside the gate, they put on holy ground
They meant to send me into exile and they sent me to the Lord
The reproach they laid upon me
Was the road that reached to Him

[Bridge - the great recognition]
All these years I grieved the cold and grieved the houses I could not enter
And the whole time He was standing here, He had been here all along
The campless man was never going to find his home inside a camp
Home was never a camp
Home was a Person, outside the gate

[Final and Outro - go forth, the gospel quartet enters]
So I am not going back inside, I am going on out instead
Out to where they led Him, out to where He bore it all
Outside the camp
Outside the camp
And I was never homeless
I was only being walked to Him