Every Heartbeat Is A Prayer - 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