[Intro] Whew!!!!!!!!!! How's Everybody Holding Up? Me? I'm Fucking Tired..................... [Verse 1] I don't sleep the way I used to Something woke up in the dark and stayed There are scars I don't show anyone Not out of pride — just out of trade I gave something to get this far I'm not sure I knew the price back then But I'm upright and I'm breathing And I'd do most of it again [Chorus] Still here Bent but not gone Still here Further along Than the night I thought I wouldn't see the morning from Still here [Verse 2] I've lost people to the quiet kind of leaving The slow fade no one names out loud And I've lost some to the sudden kind The kind that leaves a hole inside a crowd I used to think that I was next in line That something dark had written down my name But I'm still tying shoes and making coffee Still arriving, still the same [Chorus] Still here Bent but not gone Still here Further along Than the night I thought I wouldn't see the morning from Still here [Verse 3] There's a kid I used to be who wouldn't know me Wouldn't recognize the lines around my eyes But I think he'd see something in the posture Something stubborn underneath the tired I don't call it strength — that word's too clean I call it just not stopping when it hurt I call it one more day and then another I call it still alive, still in the dirt [Bridge] I have stood in rooms where everything went sideways I have said goodbye to things I can't get back I have been the wreckage and the walking And I never once laid down and didn't come back [Bridge Climax] [Style: Relentless rhythmic full band pulse, heavy chugging accents, escalating tension, intense screaming vocal delivery] Come back Come back I always come back [Guitar Solo] [Chorus] [Style: Peak emotional intensity, massive wall of overdriven rhythm guitars, soaring melodic lead guitar fills over vocals, driving heavy alternative rock] Still here Bent but not gone Still here Further along Than anyone who knew me then would've bet Still here Still here I'm still here [Outro] [Style: Sudden dramatic drop to complete silence, single clean electric guitar note sustaining, raw dry fading whisper vocal] I'm still here [Fade Out] (Guitar amp tube hum, slow decay to dead silence) [End]
