Lyrics
[Verse 1] I hear the whispers going round:
we're done. The whole thing falls.
And kindness isn't coming back
it never answers calls.
So that's it, then. We're on our own.
No one is on the way.
Whatever good was in us once
has nothing left to say.
[Pre-Chorus] They all say there's nobody good.
They say it like it's true.
They say it in the room with me.
Then I look over at you.
[Chorus] You're the proof that good still breathes.
They said there's none. I half believed.
You never asked me to believe
you just stood there and didn't leave.
That's all it took. That's all it takes.
The good ones never leave.
[Verse 2] I'd started to agree with them.
I'd got most of the way.
I figured good was something
we made up, back in the day.
A thing that used to be around
and isn't anymore.
I had it figured. I was done.
I'd pretty much shut the door.
[Bridge] You break it. Every time.
Everything they said was wrong.
You never argued once
you were just there all along.
You never had to win it.
You never had to be strong.
You just kept turning up. And so
the good ones still belong.
[Chorus] You're the proof that good still breathes.
They said there's none. I half believed.
You never asked me to believe
you just stood there and didn't leave.
That's all it took. That's all it takes.
The good ones never leave.
[Post-Chorus] They're alive in you.
They breathe in you.
Everything they said
dies in you.
[Outro] The good ones are still here.
The good ones still exist.
I know because you're standing here.
I know because of this:
The good ones never leave.