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All You Had To do Was Stay

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All You Had To do Was Stay

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People like you always want back

The love they gave away

And people like me wanna believe you

When you say you've changed

The more I think about it now

The less I know

All I know is that you drove us

Off the road

(Stay)

Hey, all you had to do was stay

Had me in the palm of your hand

Then why'd you have to go

And lock me out, when I let you in?

(Stay)

Hey, now you see you want it back

Now that it's just too late

Well, it could've been easy

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

Here you are now, calling me up

But I don't know what to say

I've been picking up the pieces

Of the mess you made

People like you always want back

The love they pushed aside

People like me are gone forever

When you say goodbye

(Stay)

Hey, all you had to do was stay

Had me in the palm of your hand

Then why'd you have to go

And lock me out, when I let you in?

(Stay)

Hey, now you see you want it back

Now that it's just too late

Well, it could've been easy

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

Let me remind you this was what you wanted

(You ended it)

You were all I wanted

(But not like this)

Not like this, not like this

Oh, all you had to do was

(Stay)

Hey, all you had to do was stay

Had me in the palm of your hand

Then why'd you have to go

And lock me out, when I let you in?

(Stay)

Hey, now you see you want it back

Now that it's just too late

Well, it could've been easy

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

All you had to do was stay

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