2026 National Patient Meeting

[Verse 1] 
I sit in that white room
under that hard tube glare
You write your little notes down
like I ain’t even there
They call my pain a shadow
say it’ll pass by dawn
But my body’s been a battleground
way too long

My mama holds the doorway
my hands shake in her hands
My partner learns my silence
like reading weather bands
The pills don’t name the monster
just the smoke and the sound
And every “maybe later”
keeps my family pinned down

[Chorus]
Tell me you hear me now
Tell me you hear me now
I been here all along I been here all along
Say my name out loud
Say my name out loud
I’m still standing here
I’m still standing here

[Verse 2]
Then one day somebody listened
like they meant every word
A name fell into place there
and the whole room turned
Not fixed, not clean, not easy
but I finally knew why
A map for all this aching
and a light in the sky

Now the morning don’t look endless
now the road has a line
I still limp through the hard days
but I’m not walking blind
There’s a dawn on the water
there’s a spark in the rain
I got proof I was living
through the shape of the pain

[Chorus] 
Tell me you hear me now
Tell me you hear me now
I been here all along I been here all along
Say my name out loud
Say my name out loud
I’m still standing here
I’m still standing here

[Verse 3]
I found folks in the dark room
with their stories worn smooth
Same scars, same slow mornings
same hard thing to prove
We trade tips and casseroles
and the names of good days
We laugh like we’ve been rescued
in a hundred small ways

[Final Chorus] Tell me you hear me now Tell me you hear me now I been here all along I been here all along Say my name out loud Say my name out loud I’m still standing here I’m still standing here

[Final Chorus]
Tell me you hear me now
Tell me you hear me now
I been here all along I been here all along
Say my name out loud
Say my name out loud
I’m still standing here
I’m still standing here