Stay
There’s an old storm brewing in a ’97 Ford
And she can’t tell who she’s flirting with
If it’s the devil or the lord
But there’s an ocean of old habits that get passed down in the skin
And if you let your guard down long enough they’re gonna come on streaming in
It feels like fate
She said darling I just need you to stay
Well ambition gets the best of us and it tears in our bones
He got a job working minimum trying to make the rent on a home
And at night he’d roll in close and whisper in her ear
Said someday I’m gonna be somebody, gonna get you out of here
And she’d look at him and he could see her looking through
He knew that she’d never believe him but there’s nothing he could do except to say
Darling I just need you to stay
Well she always had him pegged right
That job seemed to take its toll
He’d come home and couldn’t meet her gaze
Took the fire from his soul
She was always quiet like there was something she couldn’t find
And he’d mutter you can’t love a woman who never speaks her mind
They said if love is more than slaving
We don’t know what it could be
You work like hell to find a reason
Ends up being just to be to hear someone say
Darling I just need you to stay
And should my dreams all fail me
Should my road fall through
Should all else be stripped from me let me stay with you