Hands Still Shaking

[Verse 1]
You said goodbye so softly
Like you’d rehearsed it in your sleep
Left your coffee on the counter
Left your sweater on my seat
I keep folding up the silence
Trying not to let it speak
Bite my lip until it’s steady
But my hands
My hands
My hands
[Chorus]
My hands still shaking
But I’m still standing
Heart’s wide open
Yeah
It’s still cracking
I won’t break just ’cause I’m breaking
I’ve got steel beneath this aching
I’m not falling
Just awakening
With my hands
My hands still shaking
[Verse 2]
Friends all tell me
“you’re a fighter”
Like it’s something I can choose
They don’t see the way I flinch
At every echo left of you
I still sleep in your old t-shirt
Just to prove that I don’t care
I keep laughing through the tremors
’Cause the fear won’t get the chair
[Chorus]
My hands still shaking
But I’m still standing
Heart’s wide open
Yeah
It’s still cracking
I won’t break just ’cause I’m breaking
I’ve got steel beneath this aching
I’m not falling
Just awakening
With my hands
My hands still shaking
[Bridge]
I can love you
And still leave you (oh)
I can miss you
And still move through
I can cry till my ribs feel bruised
And still choose
Still choose me
[Chorus]
My hands still shaking
But I’m still standing
Heart’s wide open
Yeah
It’s still cracking
I won’t break just ’cause I’m breaking
I’ve got steel beneath this aching
I’m not falling
Just awakening
I walk forward
Spine straight
Unshaken
With my hands
My hands still shaking

rock, Slow-burn emotional rock ballad, female vocals; hushed verse over reverb-laced clean guitar and deep toms, tension rising with bass swells. Pre-chorus brings gritty overdriven guitars in the background, then chorus explodes with wide power chords, crashing cymbals, and stacked harmonies. Bridge strips to voice and guitar before a final, soaring full-band chorus with raw, pushed vocal ad-libs., female vocals, emotional