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SELAH

By Forrest Frank

547 views Sep 14, 2026 updated SELAH - Single album Verified editorial review

Song Meaning

Forrest Frank builds this whole song around a word most listeners skip past in the Psalms without a second thought — selah, a pause, a moment to "close your eyes, let it be." His point is blunt: "it ain't all 'bout what you sing, it's the moments in between," treating silence as content, not empty space.

He's specific about what the pause is for — "if I got a problem, I'm talking to Jesus, not ChatGPT" — naming exactly the kind of noise he wants replaced by stillness. "There's healing in the wait," he says twice, "that's why they call it patience," before describing roots planted deep enough that "the enemy flees" once they take hold.

The song ends by quoting Psalm 23 almost verbatim — "the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want... he leads me beside still waters" — the same psalm that gave "selah" its most famous home. Frank's whole argument is really just that verse turned into an instruction: sometimes the shepherd's rest has to be received, not produced.

Lyrics Verified by Editorial Team

[Chorus]

Sometimes you got to selah (Selah, yeah)

Don't speak for a minute

Close your eyes, let it be and selah (Selah, yeah)

It ain't all 'bout what you sing, it's the moments in between

Sometimes you got to selah (Selah, yeah)

Don't speak for a minute

Close your eyes, let it be and selah (Selah, yeah)

It ain't all 'bout what you sing, it's the moments in between

Sometimes you got to selah


[Verse 1]

Selah and take a lil' break

Somewhere that they cannot locate

Camp in the woods, lay in the shade

Like a vacation

Just put your mind at ease

There's nobody you got to please

Let go of your anxiety


[Chorus]

There's healing in the wait

That's why they call it patience

There's healing in the wait

That's why they call it patience


[Chorus]

Sometimes you got to selah (Selah, yeah)

Don't speak for a minute

Close your eyes, let it be and selah (Selah, yeah)

It ain't all 'bout what you sing, it's the moments in between (Woah, ayy, yeah)

Sometimes you got to selah


[Verse 2]

If I got a problem, I'm talking to Jesus

Not ChatGPT, woah

All of these people they speak on my name

But they do not know me, no

I wish 'em well, I pray they know it, as well

I pray they get off they cells and get out theyselves

And break out they cells 'til every cell starts moving in unison

Giving Him praise, open that book, do what it says

This ain't a game, but you should hit save

Talk about Jesus, don't care if it's made

The weight is my ease, how could I be so naive?

I hit the ground, now I'm up like a tree

Planted my roots in Him 'cause He don't leave

Speaking His name and the enemy flees


[Chorus]

There's healing in the wait

That's why they call it patience

There's healing in the wait

That's why they call it patience


[Chorus]

Sometimes you got to selah (Selah, yeah)

Don't speak for a minute

Close your eyes, let it be and selah (Selah, yeah)

It ain't all 'bout what you sing, it's the moments in between

Sometimes you got to selah (Selah, yeah)

Don't speak for a minute

Close your eyes, let it be and selah (Selah, yeah)

It ain't all 'bout what you sing, it's the moments in between

Sometimes you got to selah (Selah, yeah, take, take, a lil' break)


[Verse 3]

(Take, take a lil' break)

(Take, take, take a lil' break)

(Take, take, take a lil' break)

(Take, take, take a lil' break today)

Sometimes you got to selah (Selah, yeah, take, take a lil' break)

(Take, take a lil' break)

(Take, take, take a lil' break)

(Take, take, take a lil' break)

That makes me think of, uh (Take, take, take a lil' break today)

The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want

He makes me lie down in green pastures

He leads me beside still waters

Selah, hmm

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