[Verse 1] When the room gets quiet and the noise is gone, when everybody leaves me to figure it out alone. When I lose my way and I don’t know where to run, I don’t need you to save me, just don’t become someone who does. [Pre-Chorus] ‘Cause I’ve seen promises disappear overnight. So don’t tell me forever— just be here tonight. [Chorus] Stay when the lights go out, stay when I’m hard to love. When I got nothing left and nothing’s good enough. You don’t have to fix me, you don’t have to know how. Just put your hand in mine and don’t let go right now. If the whole damn world comes crashing down somehow, I can face anything if you’re still around. [Verse 2] I’ve had people love me when the sun was shining bright, then disappear like strangers when I couldn’t get it right. So if you see the worst of me, the parts I never show, don’t promise me tomorrow— just be the one who doesn’t go. [Pre-Chorus] I don’t need diamonds, I don’t need perfect words. Just give me something real when everything else hurts. [Chorus] Stay when the lights go out, stay when I’m hard to love. When I got nothing left and nothing’s good enough. You don’t have to fix me, you don’t have to know how. Just put your hand in mine and don’t let go right now. If the whole damn world comes crashing down somehow, I can face anything if you’re still around. [Bridge] And if we’re old someday, with silver in our hair, I hope I turn around and you’re still sitting there. No grand goodbye, no perfect ending planned. Just you beside me, still reaching for my hand. [Final Chorus] Stay when the lights go out, stay when the morning comes. Stay through the silence, stay when the damage is done. I don’t need forever written in the stars somehow. I just need to know you won’t walk away right now. And if the whole damn world comes crashing to the ground… I’ll still have everything if you’re still around. [Outro] Don’t save me. Don’t promise me forever. Just stay. Stay.
