It's a new day at last, but you're sinking so fast 
If left up to your head, you'd remember the past 
But a new day has come and new life has begun 
Let the old pass away, reconsider it done 
There's got to be a reckoning 
When you feel the Spirit beckoning 

It's a dead reckoning 
Trade the old for the new 
It's a dead reckoning 
Learn to die daily till the new life comes through 
It's a dead reckoning 

You've got nothing to lose but you do have to choose 
When the Spirit says yes but the flesh will refuse 
And although you feel odd there are many who trod 
Till they're dead to the world but alive unto God 
Some still believe it can't be done 
To the steady the race is still won 

And the battle is already through 
And it's hard to believe but it's true 
On a hill long ago where the blood runs below 
Died a King, two thieves, and you