The Record Shows

[Intro]

Oh

Oh-oh

Yeah

[Verse 1]

Fifteen winters sleeping in your shadow

I built a home on promises you broke

Every room still smells like someone leaving

I read the letter that you never wrote

You painted me a monster to your family

Told them I was cruel behind the door

Now the neighbors turn their heads when I walk past them

And I don't know what I'm defending anymore

[Pre-Chorus]

I gave you the best of me

You handed back the worst

I carried all your blame

Now I'm putting down the curse

[Chorus]

I'm still standing

I'm still breathing

I'm still here

I'm still standing

Let the record show I never raised a hand

Let the record show I'm still a better man

[Verse 2]

Fifteen years of photographs and silence

Split the plates and split the blame in two

You told the world a story I never lived in

But the truth don't need a witness to be true

I lost the house I lost the friends I lost the version

Of myself that believed in you

But I kept my name I kept my spine I kept my reason

That's the only thing you couldn't take me through

[Pre-Chorus]

You can keep the mornings

You can keep the lies

I'll take back my own hands

And the fire in my eyes

[Chorus]

I'm still standing

I'm still breathing

I'm still here

I'm still standing

Let the record show I never raised a hand

Let the record show I'm still a better man

[Bridge]

Falsely accused

Falsely framed

Still I never spoke your name in vain

Falsely accused

Falsely burned

I paid for a crime I never learned

Never learned

Never learned

[Breakdown]

Go

I never laid a hand on you

Go

I never laid a hand on you

[Chorus]

I'm still standing

I'm still breathing

I'm still here

I'm still standing

Let the record show I never raised a hand

Let the record show I'm still a better man

[Outro]

Oh

Still standing

Yeah

Still standing

I'm still here