[Intro] It was a Tuesday in November, the light had gone by four. You were quiet in the kitchen with your coat still on. I didn’t ask what happened. I didn’t try to fix or explain. I just set my keys down by the stove, sat down inside your quiet, and stayed. [Pre-Chorus] Because some things don’t want for words. Some help is just a hand. Some rooms are made for falling, and someone else to stand. [Chorus] Stayed. I stayed inside the room with you. I didn’t need you to be better or explain what you were going through. I just wanted you to feel it: someone saw the whole of you and loved what they saw. I stayed. [Verse 2] You thought the thing inside you was too broken to be shown. You wore the face that people needed and carried it home alone. I remember how you trembled the first night that you told the truth. How the shame came out like fever. How something long held moved. [Pre-Chorus] And here is what I want you to know, what I have always known: the thing you hid the longest is the most alive part of you. [Chorus] Stayed. I stayed inside the room with you. I didn’t need you to be better or explain what you were going through. I just wanted you to feel it: someone saw the whole of you and loved what they saw. I stayed. [Bridge] I wasn’t strong. I wasn’t brave. I was just the one who happened to be there when you needed someone not to run. I have my own dark kitchen. I have my own coat I leave on. But you stayed for me. You stayed for me. You set your keys down. You stayed for me. Because that is all love is: not the one who fixes anything, just the one who finds the room and doesn’t leave. And grace is just a door left open in the dark. [Final Chorus] Stayed. I’ll stay inside the room with you. I don’t need you to be better or explain what you’re going through. I just want you to feel it: someone sees the whole of you and loves what they see. I’ll stay. I’ll stay. I’ll stay. [Outro] Find the room. And stay.
