Nick Weaver - Still There lyrics

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You looking at your feet, you’re thinking where have you been

Cross streets, Baghdad, firefights, tents

Bloodstains, other nations pain in your treads

And you’ve been getting better headaches they can’t fix with meds

You looking down at your hands, wondering if they’ll ever feel the same again

‘Cause they gripped on a tat, man, never understand

And they gripped automatic weapons when you in the jam, goddamn

You thinking how you’d never be here, Afghanistan, Iraq, stacked into one year

Back to the front, 24 years, been to war four times, five if you wanna count your mind

And then you get home, its empty ass door signs … even show it online

Try to say it’s all fine, forgot what it means, you had screams for dreams and RPGs for alarm clocks

And that shock don’t leave when you walking down them crowded ass streets

And the scenes never ever look the same, you wanna find the beauty

Stuck between the dotted lines in the line of duty, sing it

Oh, I know that when we turn around

You can see me now

I’m on old ground, oh but my mind is still there

Oh, help me make it somehow

See, now you’re looking at your heart

‘Cause it beats so fast when a car passes and backfires on the gas

Been to battle, now you’re back, but your peeps don’t ask

Why you duck every time that lid bangs on the trash

You knew it might never be the same

You wet to win a war, lost what you can’t gain

On a politician’s lie, on a taxpayer’s dime

But you paid with your mind and what you can’t leave behind

And those lost ones, they paid the most

Even the ones you don’t know put frogs in your throat

Those tears that’ll choke you clearly unprovoked

And those home town homies hear you, but don’t know ‘cause you won’t show it

You ain’t never taught how, a soldier is a soldier, you never shut down

But your dreams might die if you let it all combine, tied up

So you know you gotta take a look inside and say

Oh, I know that when we turn around

You can see me now

I’m on old ground, oh but my mind is still there

Oh, help me make it somehow

See, now you looking at your mind

‘Cause you know you need help

It ain’t just you, you can’t do it by yourself

You’ve been through a lifetime of things you won’t see

Stories and pain most people couldn’t believe

And those horrific images, they can’t be erased

But you can teach yourself to turn them into strength

‘Cause you can go higher, you can rise up the ranks

And face your problems in the eyes, there ain’t a thing

And I can tell you this, you gave your life to a country

Somehow just got put on a list, handed some closed deck

And told you feel better but you gotta open your heart and speak to get your head up

So grab your bootstraps, soldier, you got this

‘Cause option is not VA prescribed pilled popping

And watching it eat you alive and just kill softly

You’re still walking, you’re still breathing, it ain’t lost yet, I promise

You done gave so much and you got so much more so raise on up

And we’ll give it right back to you, that’s the deal

The least the country can do for you is help you heal, for real

Oh, I know that when we turn around

You can see me now

I’m on old ground, oh but my mind is still there

Oh, so help me make it somehow