Recording and Composition
"Lifesong" was written by Mark Hall and produced by Mark A. Miller. The strings on the song were arranged by Bobby Huff. "Lifesong" was recorded and mixed by Sam Hewitt at Zoo Studio in Franklin, Tennessee. Additional recording was done at Lifesong Studio in McDonough, Georgia. Strings were recorded at Little Big Studio by Boeho Shin and Daewoo Kim. It was mastered by Richard Dodd and engineered by Dale Oliver and John Lewis Lee III.
"Lifesong" is a song with a length of four minutes and thirty-seven seconds; the version of the song on Lifesong has a length of five minutes and sixteen seconds. It is set in common time in the key of A major and has a tempo of 112 beats per minute. Mark Hall's vocal range in the song spans from the low note of A3 to the high note of E5. "Lifesong" has been described as a power ballad and "robust pop", and it has been musically compared to the work of rock band U2, Lyrically, it "points believers towards honoring God in all they do". According to lead vocalist Mark Hall, the song came out of what he found himself saying and praying to the student's in his church's youth ministry.
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