[VERSE 1]
I grew up learning how to bend,
How to read a room before I spoke.
I learned to carry things alone,
And call it strength when it felt like hope.
I wasn’t loud, I wasn’t seen,
But I kept moving all the same.
I didn’t know what I was becoming,
I just knew I wouldn’t fade.
[PRE-CHORUS]
I didn’t win by being harder,
I survived by staying kind.
[CHORUS]
I’m still standing, still breathing,
After everything I faced.
I’m still giving, still believing,
Love is stronger than the pain.
I didn’t break, I didn’t run,
I became who I am.
I’m still standing here,
With an open heart,
As a man.
[VERSE 2]
I carried doubt like it was truth,
Wore silence like a second skin.
I questioned every step I took,
Still I walked straight through the wind.
I didn’t always get it right,
I stumbled more than I will say.
But something in me chose to live,
Even on the hardest days.
[PRE-CHORUS 2]
I wasn’t fearless, I was real,
And that was more than enough.
[CHORUS]
I’m still standing, still breathing,
After everything I faced.
I’m still giving, still believing,
Love is stronger than the pain.
I didn’t break, I didn’t run,
I became who I am.
I’m still standing here,
With an open heart,
As a man.
[BRIDGE – LOVE]
Then love met me where I stood,
Not to fix me, not to change.
She saw the man behind the scars,
And loved me just the same.
She is strength in quiet ways,
A steady fire, a gentle flame.
And loving her taught me this:
You don’t have to bleed to be brave.
[VERSE 3 – SON]
Now there’s a small hand holding mine,
Trusting me with open eyes.
And everything I once went through
Stops right here, it doesn’t pass.
If you dream beyond this place,
If you chase a bigger sky,
I won’t hold you back from life,
Just know I’m here, right by your side.
[PRE-CHORUS 3]
Everything I missed before,
I give away in love.
[FINAL CHORUS – FULL]
I’m still standing, still breathing,
With a family I chose.
I’m still giving, still believing,
In the life we’re building slow.
I didn’t lose, I didn’t fail,
I grew into my name.
I’m still standing here,
With an open heart,
And I wouldn’t change a thing.
[OUTRO]
I’m not who I was.
I’m who I became.
Still standing.
Still giving.
