still holding your hand
Lyrics
STILL HOLDING YOUR HAND
Intro — spoken, almost whispered
You say it's over…
You say we're something that belongs to yesterday.
You say there's nothing left.
But how do you bury something
that survived the grave?
'Cause baby…
we've been to hell.
And I remember
who I was standing beside
when we walked back out.
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Verse 1
You sit there and tell me words don't leave a scar,
Like you can throw them like stones and forget where they are.
But every sharp sentence finds somewhere to land,
And I'm still picking pieces up with these two damn hands.
You say I'm supposed to listen,
Just swallow every word,
Like pain ain't pain
just because it can't be seen or heard.
But every time you cut me,
something inside me breaks,
And I smile like I'm alright
while my whole damn soul shakes.
You think I'm made of iron,
like nothing gets beneath,
But there's a man underneath this armor
who still begs you to believe.
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Pre-Chorus
'Cause I've watched you turn away
while I'm screaming without sound,
And I've wondered how two people
can be lost while they're still found.
But I remember every battle,
every valley, every flame—
And somehow through the ashes
I still reach for you the same.
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Chorus
We walked through the fire,
we slept beside the flames,
Walked next to the devil
while he called us by our names.
He put temptation in our path,
put a knife against our trust,
But we came crawling out of hell
with our hands still locked in love.
So don't tell me it's the past,
don't tell me there's nothing left,
'Cause I've seen what we survived
when love was hanging by a thread.
You might see a dead-end road,
I see another mile to drive.
'Cause after everything we've buried,
we're still here.
We're still alive.
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Verse 2
I don't remember life before you,
that's the truth I can't deny.
Feels like you were always written
somewhere underneath my sky.
You became my sunflower,
my moon, my stars, my blue,
The reason morning meant something,
the reason I kept pushing through.
And I'm not looking for another,
I don't have another dream.
There ain't another woman
waiting somewhere meant for me.
I don't want a second story,
don't want somebody new.
I don't want to learn another heart—
I learned mine loving you.
And maybe that's the part
you don't understand about me:
I'm not asking for perfection.
I'm asking you to remember what we used to see.
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Rap / Spoken Verse — hard, building
We were two damaged souls with a dangerous devotion,
Trying to build a home while drowning in emotion.
Every storm came heavy, every night came cold,
But we held onto each other when the world let go.
We fought.
We broke.
We screamed.
We bled.
Said things in anger that we wish we'd left unsaid.
But don't confuse the scars
with the absence of love—
Sometimes scars are just proof
you refused to give up.
You can tell me I'm the problem,
you can tell me I'm the past,
You can tell me every beautiful thing
we built together couldn't last.
But I know what I lived.
I know what I felt.
I know the nights we nearly lost ourselves.
And when hell opened up
and the devil came calling,
When temptation stood between us
and everything was falling—
I didn't let go.
That's the part you can't erase.
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Chorus — bigger
We walked through the fire,
we slept beside the flames,
Walked next to the devil
while he called us by our names.
He tried to take our future,
tried to poison what we trust,
But we came crawling out of hell
with our hands still locked in love.
So don't tell me it's the past,
don't tell me we're already gone.
Maybe you can't see tomorrow,
but I'm still holding on.
Not to some perfect memory,
not to some life we used to know—
I'm holding onto you,
and the life we haven't built yet,
if you'll let us grow.
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Bridge — stripped down
You are my sunflower
when the world turns black.
My moon when there's no daylight.
My stars when I lose track.
You're the sky above my head,
the ground beneath my feet.
You're the question I keep asking,
and the answer underneath.
And if love found this man
when he thought he was lost,
then maybe love can find us
no matter what this costs.
Maybe we don't need another beginning.
Maybe we need to rewrite the middle.
Maybe our ending
was never written.
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Final Verse — emotional, almost breaking
I know you're tired.
I know you're hurting.
I know somewhere along the way
we stopped knowing which way we were turning.
But please don't mistake my desperation
for wanting to control your heart.
I can't force you to love me.
I can't force you to restart.
All I can do is tell you
what's left inside of me:
There's still a man here
who sees the woman
he promised forever to be.
And if tomorrow comes
and you still can't believe,
I'll understand your heart
even if it breaks mine to leave.
But don't ask me to pretend
you were just somebody passing through.
You weren't.
You were the chapter
that changed the entire book.
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Final Chorus — full band
We walked through the fire,
we stood inside