Hard Life
Feel it with me…
** Still Here **is not a story about romantic love, a breakup, or trying to get someone back. It is a story about friendship and the kind of responsibility that comes with it — even if nobody ever writes down the rules.Some relationships begin in a very simple way. Two people notice each other. They start to trust each other. With time, different situations show them that they can depend on one another.There is no need to count who helped more, who called first, or who was there more often. In a real friendship, people usually do not keep such a score.Instead, something much simpler begins to grow:**If I really need you, you will be there.And you can expect the same from me.**At some point, this relationship gets a name:**friendship.**And this is where the real story of *Still Here* begins.Two people once accepted this friendship. There were words about loyalty, presence, being there in every situation, and that special promise of **“forever.”**Between friends, “forever” does not have to be a romantic promise. It can simply mean that after everything they have been through together, their friendship has become something they both believe in.Then, one day, they meet again.One of them still sees the relationship in the same way.The other seems to be trying to pass by without really looking.**“I see youI see your gazeCasually passing me by.”**There is no argument.There is no explanation.We do not know what happened inside the other person or why they behave this way.The song does not tell us, because we only know the story from one side.The narrator sees someone who is still a friend in their mind. But at the same time, they see something that does not fit everything this friendship used to mean.So the narrator walks towards that person.It is not a threat when they say:**“Whether you want it or not.”**For the narrator, it is much simpler:**I see my friend, so I walk towards my friend.**This leads to one of the most important thoughts in the song:**“You cannot escape the consequencesOf being a friend.”**The consequences of friendship are not a debt.It does not mean: *I helped you once, so now you must help me.*Friends usually do not count things this way.But there is another kind of responsibility.Through our actions, loyalty and presence, we can make another person believe that they can depend on us.And once that trust exists, it becomes part of the friendship.This is why the hook is not an accusation:**“You promised me forever...You promised to be there in every situation...You promised loyalty...You promised presence...”**These words are a memory.The narrator remembers the foundation of the friendship because what is happening now does not fit that memory.And then the certainty begins to disappear.**“I don't know what to doI don't know what to say...”**A moment ago, the narrator was simply walking towards a friend.Now they are no longer sure what they should do.But the most difficult discovery is not about the other person.It is about themselves.**“I'm still like thisI want to run to you.”**The narrator still reacts in the same way.The first natural reaction is still to go to this person, because this person is still a friend in the narrator's emotional world.Nobody ever said that the friendship was over.And then there is that look.No argument.No goodbye.No clear end.Just a look strong enough to stop the natural wish to come closer.This creates the deepest doubt in *Still Here*:**“Extinguishes my beliefThat all of thisReally happened.”**The narrator does not say:*You betrayed me.*Instead, they begin to question their own understanding of the past.If you are still my friend to me, but you look at me as if this friendship no longer exists — **when did that change?**Did I miss something?Did we understand our friendship differently?Did “forever,” loyalty and presence mean something different to each of us?The song gives no answers.We never learn the reasons of the other person.We do not know who is right or wrong.We do not even know if the friendship is really over.Only one thing remains certain, and it is also the title of the song:**Still Here.**One person seems to have already moved somewhere else.The other is only beginning to understand that they may now be standing alone in a place they once believed belonged to both of them.