Still Standing After All This — The Coastal Kids

Verse

Salt air drying on the porch rail wood

Your suitcase waiting where the taxi stood

I folded up the map we never read

Kept one photograph instead

The tide pulled out and took the summer too

But I'm still standing where I stood with you

Pre-Chorus

So how do I let the quiet in

Turn the ending into where I begin

What do I do with all this space

This empty chair, this waiting place

Chorus

Still standing after all this

Feet in the sand where the water hits

Every wave that came to break me down

Just left me softer, standing on this ground

Still standing after all this

Bruised a little, but I found my balance

Verse

Boxes packed and the porch light dim

I hum the songs I used to sing with him

Found a shell out on the windowsill

Empty now, but the shape stayed still

Learned that leaving doesn't mean I'm gone

I'm the harbor now, I'm holding on

Pre-Chorus

So how do I let the quiet in

Turn the ending into where I begin

What do I do with all this space

This empty chair, this waiting place

Chorus

Still standing after all this

Feet in the sand where the water hits

Every wave that came to break me down

Just left me softer, standing on this ground

Still standing after all this

Bruised a little, but I found my balance

Bridge

Maybe goodbye's not the end of the story

Maybe it's just the tide changing course

Every scar on this shoreline's a glory

Proof that I weathered the storm

Chorus

Still standing after all this

Feet in the sand where the water hits

Every wave that came to break me down

Just left me softer, standing on this ground

Still standing after all this

Bruised a little, but I found my balance

Still standing, still standing after all this