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JUST STAY lyrics
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Intro
buzz. buzz. buzz. eleven PM and the road knows my name she said come over like the last time wasn't the last time I already know but I'm driving anyway
Verse 1
Friday night, eleven and a minute her door's unlocked before I even knock on it candle lit, the one she saves I don't say anything, she don't say anything we both know the math but we running from the answer small talk moving fast like we scared of what comes after she laughs a little too hard at something I said I laugh a little too long looking straight ahead kitchen light on, both of us glowing hands moving like a river that forgot where it's going too bright in here, too loud in here the silence underneath is what we really fear
Pre-chorus
don't say it, don't say it we still got tonight
Chorus
stay a little longer, stay we don't have to name it, stay just a little longer, stay I know what you're thinking, stay stay a little longer, stay we don't have to say it yet just stay
Verse 2
Saturday afternoon, grocery cart she picks the avocados, I push the cart we move through the aisles like a couple on TV but neither of us ever met the other's family cereal aisle, she's reading the back of a box I open my mouth, she turns the music up in her pocket I put it back, I swallow it whole she hands me something off the shelf, I take it slow we check out, we bag it, we drive back quiet her hand on the window like she's reading the weather I'm reading her profile, she's reading the road two people performing the end of a show
Pre-chorus
don't say it, don't say it we still got tonight
Chorus
stay a little longer, stay we don't have to name it, stay just a little longer, stay I know what you're thinking, stay stay a little longer, stay we don't have to say it yet just stay
Verse 3
Saturday night, it's a dish in the sink the kind of fight that's not about the thing thirty seconds loud then a door in my chest closes so soft it echoes down the hall like the rest she goes quiet, I go quiet room hums with the weight of what we didn't say I sit on the edge, she sits on the other edge we breathe together like we're waiting for the ledge
Bridge
...just breathing. just bells. just reverb. ... we know
Verse 4
Sunday morning and I'm awake first I watch her sleep and I count every word I never said out loud, they stack up like rent I catalog her shoulder blade, the way that she leans she opens her eyes and catches me looking one second, we're both completely honest one second, we both let the real thing sit there then she blinks and says do you want coffee
Verse 5
Monday morning six AM and my shoes are on she's still in the sheets, I can feel that she's done I say I'll call you she says okay both phones face down and neither one will ring today I pull the door, the seal comes shut like a vacuum bag around everything we almost touched seventy-two hours sealed and done two cups on the counter, one full, one gone
Chorus
stay a little longer, stay we don't have to name it, stay just a little longer, stay I know what you're thinking, stay stay a little longer, stay we don't have to say it yet just stay
Outro
door. silence. nothing. stay
Inside the recording
buzz. buzz. buzz. eleven PM and the road knows my name
don't say it, don't say it we still got tonight
door. silence. nothing. stay
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