Still Standing, Still Smiling

Verse

Dust on my shoes from the road that broke me

Copper sky over the fields I know

Grandmother's shawl still smells like smoke and

Every goodbye I was forced to throw

The drums start low where the river bends

Strangers become like family again

Pre-Chorus

So what do we do with a heart this heavy?

We let it go, we let it fly

Can this old ache turn into something ready

To meet the stars tonight?

Chorus

Still standing, still smiling

Feet in the dirt, hands to the sky

We're still standing, still smiling

Dancing like we'll never say goodbye

Every scar's a rhythm now

Every tear's turned into sound

We're still standing, still smiling

Free tonight, we're free tonight

Verse

Torn flags waving from the rooftops

Children spinning barefoot in the square

Someone's playing songs their father taught them

Notes like ribbons scattered through the air

The fire's cracking, throwing gold and red

We keep dancing for the ones who've left

Pre-Chorus

So what do we do with a heart this heavy?

We let it go, we let it fly

Can this old ache turn into something ready

To meet the stars tonight?

Chorus

Still standing, still smiling

Feet in the dirt, hands to the sky

We're still standing, still smiling

Dancing like we'll never say goodbye

Every scar's a rhythm now

Every tear's turned into sound

We're still standing, still smiling

Free tonight, we're free tonight

Bridge

Maybe joy isn't the absence of the breaking

It's the dance we do while our hands are still shaking

Maybe free was never a promise, just a choosing

Made again each time the drum keeps moving

Chorus

Still standing, still smiling

Feet in the dirt, hands to the sky

We're still standing, still smiling

Dancing like we'll never say goodbye

Every scar's a rhythm now

Every tear's turned into sound

We're still standing, still smiling

Free tonight, we're free tonight

Outro

Free tonight

We're still here, still shining

Free tonight