Randy Stonehill Album: Thirst Track: Every Heartbeat Is A Prayer
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
