Not To Us / Good Love

Steven Malcolm builds this track around a refrain lifted from Psalm 115 — the plea that glory belong to God's name rather than to the singer — and then fills the space between those declarations with autobiography. The chorus repeats the lost-and-found reversal, crediting God for picking him up, shaking the ground, and showing mercy, while the verses get specific: twenty-hour work weeks, a childhood home with no heat, sleeping in a jacket for warmth, and a mother he credits with being pulled out of the hood. There's a striking geographic arc in the details, from broke neighborhood beginnings to break dancing in Jerusalem, and a deliberate refusal to boast even while naming the blessings — he jokes about a lakefront house before admitting the future is simply the great part. The closing tag keeps circling back to the same posture: not to us, Lord. Thanksgiving runs through every verse, but it's thanksgiving with receipts, memory attached to each line rather than a general sentiment. The "good love" hook functions as both praise and testimony, tying God's faithfulness to concrete rescue rather than abstraction.