What a contradiction! Feeling like things are always changing and in motion, yet, in some ways, not really changing at all—as if we were still the same idealists from our youth, only with a different look about us. Everything changes yet nothing does. How strange.
The song is about the resolve we must have, to stand our ground against the winds of change all around us, yet also flow along with the graceful currents that move us along.
As Elton John so simply put it, “I’m still standing.”
Music
Lyrics
Standing still, against the wind
Somehow taking and then remaking
What comes to me
That’s just the way I do things
Guess I always will
Yet it looks as if I am
Standing still, yet again
Acting as though I am who I was
Like I’ve always been
No matter what you think
Or how it may appear
You can be sure that I am standing still
Whether there are days my heart is dancing
Times when I cannot be brought back down to earth
Not for a minute
Glad to say that I’m still in it
Or even when my heart is broken
Times so tough that I can hardly catch my breath
When nothing seems clear
Have to admit that I’m still in here
Glad to say that I’m still in it
Standing still, always will
Feeling as though I am becoming
Who I am to be
In spite of or maybe because
Whatever comes my way
Ceaselessly moving, I am standing still
Once again
Though my heart is dancing
Or broken
I am standing still
Credits
From Layers, track released June 17, 2011
Cheryl Martlage – Lyrics, vocals and production
Emerson Martlage – Music, guitar, vocals and production
Mr Toad’s San Francisco – Mastering