
Lyrics
[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