STILL HERE

I'm still here! (Still here!) I'm still here! (Still here!)

Shoulda been gone in '17, I'm still here!

Mama kept my name in every prayer, I'm still here!

Came home, got washed that same year, I'm still here!

I'm still here! (Still here!) I'm still here! (Still here!)

Same block, new man, y'all can see it clear

Didn't nobody save me but the One who put me here

So I'ma say it loud 'til the back row hear. I'm still here!

Cedar Grove raised me, Seventieth Street

Porch light on 'cause my mama couldn't sleep

Five years gone and I counted every week

Came home in '19 with a bag and some grief

First Sunday back I sat in the last row

Usher handed me a fan, never asked where I'd been though

Second Sunday I was standing, third one I walked up

Water to my chest and I came up a different cut

Same hands did the dirt, now they lifted up

Same mouth, new song, I can't say it enough

I ain't get here by myself

Somebody prayed when I couldn't

Somebody stayed when I wouldn't

(Still here)

I'm still here! (Still here!) I'm still here! (Still here!)

Shoulda been gone in '17, I'm still here!

Mama kept my name in every prayer, I'm still here!

Came home, got washed that same year, I'm still here!

Saturday night and the speakers on ten

Sunday morning I'm in there by ten (on time)

I don't talk down, I just tell you where I been

Second shift at the plant, punch the clock, do it again

Little brother watching so I walk it, I don't talk it

Lost some to the ground, lost some to the fence

I say they names every time I get a chance

Joy ain't soft, joy is what I fought for

I dance like a man who done been through a war

If you woke up this morning, say it (still here)

If you made it through the year, say it (still here)

If they counted you out, say it (still here)

Louder! (STILL HERE!)

I'm still here! (Still here!) I'm still here! (Still here!)

Same block, new man, y'all can see it clear

Didn't nobody save me but the One who put me here

So I'ma say it loud 'til the back row hear. I'm still here!