This song doesn't ask people to hide pain or abuse. It separates honest speech from repeated venting, gossip, backbiting, and words that deepen the same cage.
Scripture connections: Psalms 141:3; Proverbs 18:20-21; Wisdom of Solomon 1:10-11
Lyrics
Not every pain needs an audience
Not every wound needs a stage
Some things need the altar
Before they ever touch the page
We The Assembly
Don't hand pain the mic
Hand it to YAHUAH
I kept telling the story
Till the story told me
Every retell
Made the anger hold me
Called it venting
Called it getting it out
But every time I said it
I built the same house
Trusted friend
Family line
Everybody gave
A piece of their mind
Ten opinions
Couldn't make me whole
Fed the wound
While I prayed for control
There's a time for counsel
There's a time to speak
But I gotta take the matter
To YAHUAH first
Before pain decides
What the next line means
Before a bruise
Turns into belief
Psalms chapter one hundred forty one verse three
Set a watch O YAHUAH
Before my mouth
Keep the door of my lips
Don't give the wound a microphone
Pain'll preach
If you let it choose the tone
Tell the truth
But don't build it a throne
Take it to YAHUAH
Before you take it to the phone
Don't give the wound a microphone
I can name what hurt
And still refuse the role
Guard the gate
Let the Book take control
Don't give the wound a microphone
I'll never get free
Nothing ever changes
Everybody leaves
My whole life stays the same
Words reveal the room
That the heart lives in
Then the mouth keeps feeding
What the mind spins
I ain't saying my mouth
Can create my fate
I'm saying repeated speech
Can deepen a cage
What I rehearse
Can govern my next move
So I bring every sentence
Under the truth
I can say I'm angry
Without crowning it king
I can name the fear
Without teaching it to sing
I can tell YAHUAH
Where the pressure is real
Then ask Him to search me
And teach me to heal
No fake positivity
No hiding the ache
Truth under authority
Before my next statement
Proverbs chapter eighteen verses twenty through twenty one
A man's belly shall be satisfied
With the fruit of his mouth
And with the increase of his lips
Shall he be filled
Death and life
Are in the power of the tongue
And they that love it
Shall eat the fruit thereof
Don't give the wound a microphone
Pain'll preach
If you let it choose the tone
Tell the truth
But don't build it a throne
Take it to YAHUAH
Before you take it to the phone
Don't give the wound a microphone
I can name what hurt
And still refuse the role
Guard the gate
Let the Book take control
Don't give the wound a microphone
We The Assembly
Take the mic back
Pain can speak
But it can't lead
I learned a closed mouth
Ain't always defeat
Sometimes warfare sounds
Like peace taking the lead
Not silence from fear
Not hiding abuse
It's refusing to let hurt
Become the voice I use
If the truth must be spoken
Let wisdom set time
Let mercy and justice
Govern the line
No gossip chain
No slander loop
No crowd replacing
The truth
Set a watch at my mouth
Keep the door of my lips
Don't let me use the Book
To baptize a fit
If my words won't give life
Don't let them leave
Teach my mouth to obey
Before it tries to lead
Wisdom of Solomon chapter one verses ten through eleven
For the ear of jealousy heareth all things
And the noise of murmurings is not hid
Therefore beware of murmuring
Which is unprofitable
And refrain your tongue from backbiting
Set a watch YAHUAH
Guard the gate
Before the wound
Gets amplified
Search the root
Correct the weight
Don't let my pain
Decide my life
No microphone for the wound
No throne for offense
No audience
Before obedience
Set a watch YAHUAH
Guard the gate
We The Assembly
If YAHUAH checked the words
Before they left
Say Barak YAHUAH
If He showed you silence
Can protect
Say GUARD THE GATE
If you stopped the wound
Before it took the throne
Drop DON'T GIVE IT THE MICROPHONE
We The Assembly
Take the mic back from pain
Don't give the wound a microphone
Pain'll preach
If you let it choose the tone
Tell the truth
But don't build it a throne
Take it to YAHUAH
Before you take it to the phone
Don't give the wound a microphone
I can name what hurt
And still refuse the role
Guard the gate
Let the Book take control
Don't give the wound a microphone
Pain can speak
But it can't lead
The Book decides
What I believe
We The Assembly
Don't hand pain the mic
Hand it to YAHUAH