Every Heartbeat Is A Prayer Lyrics & Chords By Randy Stonehill

Oh, every heartbeat is a prayer, yeah.

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.

Won't you take me as your child of light?
Break me if you must, I won't despair,
'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 a prayer,

Hey yeah.

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.

Won't you take me as your child of light?
Break me if you must, I won't despair,
'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's a prayer,

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,
Oh yeah, 'til every breath I breathe is a song of praise, every heartbeat is a prayer.

Oh,
Every heartbeat is a prayer,
Oh.