Still Standing There

Lyrics

[Intro: solo vocal, acoustic guitar only] There's a bar in Decatur where the bartender knows Not what you drink but why you drink it slow She never asks the question that you don't want asked She just fills the glass and lets the evening pass

[Verse 1: add bass, light drums, conversational vocal] I drove down from Nashville with a guitar in the back And a list of things I lost that I won't get back The signs on the highway said the road was closed I drove it anyway because that's how it goes That's how it goes

[Chorus: drop back to acoustic + vocal only, lower register, more intimate] And the bar's still standing there With the same neon sign blinking like it don't care And the same people sitting on the same old stools Drinking away the same old fools The same old fools

[Verse 2: band returns, electric guitar texture, gritty vocal] My daddy told me once that a man who can't lose Is a man who never had anything worth choosing I didn't understand it then but I was seventeen Now I'm thirty-two and I know what he means I know what he means

[Chorus: drop back again, even quieter] And the bar's still standing there With the same neon sign blinking like it don't care And the same people sitting on the same old stools Drinking away the same old fools The same old fools

[Bridge: sparse, vocal + acoustic only, almost spoken] I called her last night from a payphone in Birmingham The phone rang four times and then she picked up She said "Are you okay" and I said "I'm driving" She said "That's not what I asked you" I said "I know"

[Outro: solo vocal, acoustic guitar, fading] The bar's still standing The bar's still standing I'm still driving I'm still driving