Track 5 – The Sound Of Our Breathing

Track 5 – The Sound Of Our Breathing

by Jason Gray on September 13, 2011

I wrote about the story behind this song in an earlier Rabbit Room post. It’s based on the idea that the name of God, YHWH, is comprised of aspirated consonants, or breathing sounds, in the Hebrew alphabet, which has raised the question among some thinkers: “What if the name of God is the sound of breathing?”

Admittedly, it’s a speculative thought–maybe even a fanciful one. But it’s also quite beautiful and pregnant with significance. And as I say to my audiences when I introduce the song live: it might even be true.

The Sound Of Our Breathing
(Jason Gray / Doug McKelvey / Seth Mosley)

Everybody draws their very first breath
With Your name upon their lips
Every one of us is born of dust
But come alive with heaven’s kiss

The name of God
Is the sound of our breathing
Hallelujahs rise
On the wings of our hearts beating

Breathe in, breathe out
Speak it aloud oh oh, oh oh
The glory surrounds
This is the sound oh oh, oh oh

Moses bare foot at the burning bush
Wants to know who spoke to him
The answer is unspeakable
Like the rush of a gentle wind

In him we live and move and have our being
We speak the name as long as we are breathing
So breathe in
Breathe out…

Doubters and deceivers, skeptics and believers
We speak it just the same
From birth to death, every single breath
Is whispering Your name

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