Still Here

Intro The shop on the corner closed in spring and the one beside it closed in June Verse Still here still here after all of it I'm still here Not because I won a single argument not because I was strong The clever ones went off to better weather the brave ones went to war with it I did neither and I'm sitting in the same chair by the door Pre Chorus It isn't much to put on a stone but it's true and it is mine Chorus Still here still here same old light and I'm still here Still here still here and I'll be here tomorrow Post Chorus Everything that shouted left everything that glittered went What is left is what stayed quiet what is left is what stayed Verse There was a year I thought that staying was the same thing as a failure Everybody I grew up with had a city and a story and a name And I had the harbour and the morning and a job that no one envied Now the cities have moved on from them and the harbour hasn't moved Pre Chorus It isn't much to put on a stone but it's true and it is mine Chorus Still here still here same old light and I'm still here Still here still here and I'll be here tomorrow Post Chorus Everything that shouted left everything that glittered went What is left is what stayed quiet what is left is what stayed Verse I have buried more than I can count now and I have carried what they left The recipes the tools the small ones and the stories nobody else has That's what staying is for really somebody has to hold the thread If everybody goes for better there's no one left to remember Bridge So put me down as present put me down as here Not as brave and not as clever only steady only near Only steady only near that was the whole of it Verse And the light comes up the harbour the same way it always did It don't know that they're gone it just comes and finds me here Break Still here still here Chorus Still here still here same old light and I'm still here Still here still here and I'll be here tomorrow Post Chorus Everything that shouted left everything that glittered went What is left is what stayed quiet what is left is what stayed Outro Still here still here and I'll be here tomorrow Still here still here same old light Still here