This song turns speech into a gate that needs wisdom, patience, and restraint. It asks YAHUAH to stop anger, gossip, deceit, and wounded pride before they become words that burn another person or damage the speaker's own walk.
Scripture connections: Sirach 5:11-14; Wisdom of Solomon 1:5-11; Psalms 64:3,8; Sirach 28:12,17-18,24-25
Lyrics
Before I answer
Before I vent
Before I try to prove my point
YAHUAH
Guard my mouth
Guard my mouth
Before this spark get out
If it ain't truth and life
Shut these lips down
Guard my mouth
Keep my tongue from war
If You don't hold this gate for me
I could burn down more
We The Assembly
Guard Your Mouth With Me
Swift to hear, slow to let it fly
Some words feel right, but they still ain't wise
Some thoughts sound clean till they hit the air
Then shame sit heavy cause I put 'em there
So teach me pause when my chest run hot
Teach me weigh what my flesh got caught
If I got understanding, let me answer straight
If I don't, put silence at the gate
Cause honour and shame both live in talk
One loose tongue can wreck one walk
One proud mouth can spoil a room
One bitter phrase can shift the whole mood
I know how pain make a mouth run wild
How hurt get dressed and sound real styled
So before I call out what they did
Search this heart and close these lips
Not every truth need all my heat
Not every wound need public speech
Sometimes wisdom look like this
Hand on my mouth till pride get missed
O YAHUAH
We The Assembly
Guard Your Mouth With Me
Sirach chapter 5, verses 11 through 14
"Be swift to hear"
"With patience give answer"
"If not, lay thy hand upon thy mouth"
"Honour and shame is in talk"
QADESH discipline don't stay with deceit
So if I keep lying, it won't rest on me
Backbiting travel where I cannot see
Then circle back and start cutting me
No word secret if YAHUAH hear
No hidden venom just disappear
Murmuring spread like smoke in cloth
By the time you smell it, peace already lost
So why would I feed that chain
Why would I echo that kind of stain
Why would I let one reckless sound
Drag this whole inner temple down
And I'm not just looking at them
I'm checking what spirit get room within
Cause a lying mouth don't just hurt a name
It wounds the soul and invites more flame
I need clean speech, not polished sin
No double tongue with a smile pinned
No bless out front and curse inside
No holy talk with a crooked mind
Let what I say be weighed and tried
Before one sentence switch my side
O YAHUAH
We The Assembly
Guard Your Mouth With Me
Wisdom of Solomon chapter 1, verses 5 through 11
"The QADESH spirit of discipline will flee deceit"
"A hearer of his tongue"
"Refrain your tongue from backbiting"
"The mouth that belieth slayeth the soul"
Door and bar
Door and bar
Set one on this mouth of mine
Door and bar
Door and bar
Till my speech line up with life
Cause one spark
Can light dark
If I let flesh hold the mic
Door and bar
Door and bar
Guard my mouth tonight
The wicked sharpen tongues like swords
Bitter words still draw blood, YAHUAH
And I've seen lips look smooth as oil
Whole time ready to spoil
Sirach said the tongue break bones
More than blades in many homes
And if you blow that spark, it burns
If you quench it, peace return
So I won't join mud just cause it's loud
Won't let strife make me feel strong now
Won't match dark with darker speech
Won't hand poison to the people I reach
Let their own tongue fall where You decide
But keep my feet from that same slide
My mouth was made for praise and truth
Joyful lips and cleaner fruit
Not every silence weakness shown
Sometimes silence mean YAHUAH's throne
And when You do tell me speak, let it land
Seasoned, clean, and fully scanned
Till what leave my mouth make room for light
And not one more fire in the night
Guard Your Mouth With Me
If the Book checked your mouth, sit with it
Barak YAHUAH
If you learning that silence can be wisdom, say it
We The Assembly
We don't bless with lips and curse inside
Psalms chapter 64, verses 3 and 8
"They whet their tongue like a sword"
"They shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves"
Sirach chapter 28, verses 12, 17, 18, 24, and 25
"Both these come out of thy mouth"
"The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones"
"Many have fallen by the tongue"
"Weigh thy words in a balance"
"Make a door and bar for thy mouth"
Guard my mouth
Before this spark get out
If it ain't truth and life
Shut these lips down
Guard my mouth
Keep my tongue from war
If You don't hold this gate for me
I could burn down more
Joyful lips
Clean speech
Door and bar
Watch me
O YAHUAH
Guard my mouth
We The Assembly