Every Heartbeat Is A Prayer Lyrics
Randy Stonehill
Every heartbeat is a prayer
Mighty Father of creation,
You who stand outside of time
To Your beauty no other can compare
While I still cast a shadow in the precious days of grace
Your countless tender mercies I'll declare
Perhaps it is the wisdom only weariness can bring
But I've come to distinguish what is real from what it seems
I've danced just like the dervish to the symphony of liars
But Your voice of love rose above that desolation choir
Desolation choir
Chorus:
Won't you take me as Your child of light
Break me if You must, I won't despair
'Til every breath I breath is a song of praise
Every heartbeat is a prayer
'Til every breath I breathe is a song of praise
Every heartbeat is a prayer
Oh, speak to me in the silence
Come to me in my dreams
Call me through the clutter of these days
If I should turn to blindness
Oh, let the church bells ring
Pull me back before I fall away
For I have stumbled down many a dark and crooked mile
Where seduction and destruction have dogged me all the while
And the very things that I've embraced to medicate my pain
Turned out to be impostors and poison in my veins
They were poison in my veins
[repeat Chorus]
From the day we are born to the day they close our eyes
We are aching for belonging
Won't you take me as Your child of light
Break me if You must, I do not care
Til every breath I breathe is a song of praise
Every heartbeat is a prayer
'Til every breath I breathe is a song of praise
Every heartbeat is a prayer
© 1998 Stonehillian Music / ASCAP.
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