Lyrics
Chorus
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Verse 1
You are my obsession
My only addiction
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Chorus (Repeat)
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Verse 1 (Repeat)
You are my obsession
My only addiction
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Verse 2
I've done calculations
It doesn't pay to leave You
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Verse 3
Science is failing now
It doesn't pay to leave You
Governments are failing now
Presidents crying now
It doesn't pay to leave You
Nations crumbling oh
It doesn't pay to leave You
Sickness is everywhere
People are dying oh
It doesn't pay to leave You
Outro
Living bread, living water
What are we now without You
You are my obsession
My only addiction
Living bread, living water
What can we do without You
Video
Meaning & Inspiration
"Living Bread Living Water" is built around a simple, repeated confession: without Christ, "what can we do without You." Framed as a chant sung on a mountainside as part of a wider series of mountain worship recordings, the song leans on two images drawn from John's Gospel, bread that truly satisfies and water that truly quenches, to describe complete dependence on God. The refrain functions almost like a liturgy, repeated until the words settle as declaration rather than question.
The middle verses turn personal, naming God as an "obsession" and "only addiction," language that pushes past casual affection toward all-consuming devotion. A line about calculations that "doesn't pay to leave" God adds a note of reasoned conviction beneath the emotional repetition.
The closing section widens the lens to global crisis, naming science, governments, and nations as failing while sickness spreads, and each collapse is answered with the same refrain. That pairing echoes how Scripture uses bread and water as pictures of what only God supplies when every other source runs dry, framing worship as the one response that does not waver when circumstances do.
Related Scripture
- John 6:35 Jesus declares Himself the bread of life that ends all hunger.
- John 4:13-14 Christ offers living water that becomes a spring welling up to eternal life.
- John 7:37-38 Jesus invites the thirsty to come and drink, promising rivers of living water.