Can't Nobody

Maverick City Music, Kirk Franklin, Ryan Ofei and Maryanne J. George open this one with a question rather than a declaration — 'where can I go from Your spirit? How far from Your presence could I run?' — lifting Psalm 139:7 almost word for word, and letting the question sit unanswered for a beat before the song moves into what that inescapability actually feels like: not confinement, but security. 'When I try to hide, You will find me' treats the same fact the psalm describes as comfort rather than threat.

'In my mother's womb You formed me, how mighty are the works of Your hands' echoes Psalm 139:13's claim that God 'formed my inmost being' and 'knit me together in my mother's womb,' extending the psalm's theme of inescapable presence backward to before birth. 'Can't nobody love me like You, You keep on giving me life' repeats as the song's entire chorus, and the bridge's simple insistence — 'your steadfast goodness, your loving kindness, I am reminded that it's so much better' — keeps returning to the same comparison rather than building toward anything more elaborate.