[Title: YOU AIN'T ON TRIAL WITH ME] [Slow 12-bar Intro – Lone Guitar] [Verse 1] Baby, when I speak you brace before I land. Like every little word got a judgment in its hand. I say somebody's shining, you hear that you are dim. I try to lift a brother, you think I pushed you down. But I ain't keeping score. I ain't building no case. I still see the woman I fell in love with in your face. [Chorus] YOU AIN'T ON TRIAL WITH ME. You don't have to prove what I already see. I ain't your judge. I ain't your enemy. You don't have to fight to be enough for me. Lay that armor down just long enough to see— AIN'T NOBODY TAKING YOUR CHAIR. YOU AIN'T ON TRIAL WITH ME. [Verse 2] Sometimes I ask a question, you hear, "You should've known." Sometimes I try to help you, you hear, "You can't stand on your own." Sometimes I say, "I love you," and pain gets there first. Turns a hand reaching toward you into something meant to hurt. But I'm not here to make you prove a thing. I'm the one still reaching. [Chorus] YOU AIN'T ON TRIAL WITH ME. You don't have to prove what I already see. I ain't your judge. I ain't your enemy. You don't have to fight to be enough for me. Lay that armor down just long enough to see— AIN'T NOBODY TAKING YOUR CHAIR. YOU AIN'T ON TRIAL WITH ME. [Blues Guitar Break] [Bridge] I don't need you smaller so somebody else can shine. I don't love you less when I praise another life. There ain't one little scale where every soul gets weighed. Your beauty doesn't vanish when I celebrate somebody else's day. You are not a contest. You are not a test. You are not the last one picked inside your own address. And when I reach for you, I'm not coming with a knife. I'm trying to love the woman walking through this life. [Breakdown] But baby— when every word I give you comes back sharpened, it lands on me too. When every kindness has to defend itself, I get tired too. I don't want to win against you. I want us on the same side. [Silence] You ain't got to fight me to survive. Come down off that wire. You already live here. [Final Chorus] YOU AIN'T ON TRIAL WITH ME. Never had to earn what love gives freely. I ain't your judge. I ain't your enemy. And somebody else's light doesn't take one thing from you. Come sit beside me. Let the whole world be. Tonight you don't have to fight. Keep your seat, baby. I'm not selling it. YOU AIN'T ON TRIAL WITH ME. [Long Guitar Outro] [Outro] You are enough to be loved. You are enough to be heard. And I am still here. Not above you. Not against you. Beside you. GOD IS GOOD. JESUS IS THE LORD.
