All You Had to Do Was Stay Lyrics

All You Had to Do Was Stay Lyrics (1989 album)

Written by Taylor Swift & Max Martin

People like you always want back 
The love they gave away
And people like me want to 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

Chorus:
Hey- all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Then
Why'd you had to go and lock me out 
When I let you in
Hey- now you say you want it back
Now it's just too late
Well, 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
But people like me are gone forever
When you say goodbye

Chorus

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

Chorus

Chorus

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