Still Here A Soul Blues Song About Surviving the Years - Eli Rowan

[Verse 1] Morning found me at the window Same old chair, a different light I watched the city waking slowly After making peace with night There are names I still remember There are doors that had to close There are questions I quit asking When I learned nobody knows And somehow all that living All that losing, all those years Brought me to this quiet morning Still here [Chorus] I’m still here Still breathing Still finding reasons To open up the blinds Still here Still learning Some bridges stop burning When you leave them far behind I don’t need the road explained I don’t need the past repaired I loved I lost I carried on And I’m still here [Verse 2] There was a time I thought tomorrow Had to look the way I planned Thought a life was something broken If it slipped out of your hands But life has never asked permission Love has never signed a deal And some of our deepest endings Teach us what was always real Not everything gets answered Not every scar disappears But there’s coffee on the table And I’m still here [Chorus] I’m still here Still breathing Still finding reasons To open up the blinds Still here Still learning Some bridges stop burning When you leave them far behind I don’t need the road explained I don’t need the past repaired I loved I lost I carried on And I’m still here [Instrumental Turn] Piano holds the melody. Hammond breathes underneath. Guitar answers once, then leaves space. [Verse 3] Maybe peace is not forgetting Maybe peace is letting be Letting yesterday stay yesterday Without asking it to leave I can miss the ones who loved me I can miss who I was then Without turning every memory Into somewhere I must live again The heart can hold an absence Without making it a home And you can carry love beside you Without walking Back alone [Bridge — nearly bare] I used to think the ending Was the measure of the song Now I know a beautiful thing Doesn’t have to last that long And I don’t need another lifetime To make this one feel fair There was love There was sorrow There was life And I was there [Pause] I was there [Final Chorus] I’m still here Still breathing Still finding reasons To open up the blinds Still here Still learning There’s more than one way For a heart to stay alive I don’t need the road explained I don’t need the past repaired I loved I lost I carried on And I’m still here [Gospel Backing Vocals] Still here Still here [Eli] Some mornings That’s enough [Backing Vocals] Still here [Eli] Some mornings That’s everything [Outro] Morning found me at the window Same old chair A different light And for the first time in a long time I didn’t ask it To be anything else