Stay a Little Longer

Intro

mm-mm, la-la, hush (shh)

Verse

Light slides through the blinds, slow ribbon of gold

Your old coat on the chair, pockets full of small stories told

Mug with a chip, steam writes a map on the glass (mmm)

Pages of a paperback, thumbed where we let time pass

Pre-chorus

Remember how the afternoon would pull us close (close)

Soft talk, slow laugh, nothing urgent, nothing posed

We kept the day like a secret, folded in the sleeve (yeah)

Held it like a promise that we didn't have to keep

Chorus

Stay a little longer, stay a little longer, stay a little longer (oh)

Lean your shoulder on my day, let the world drift farther, farther, farther (yeah)

Stay a little longer, stay a little longer, stay a little longer (mm)

Breathe in the quiet with me, breathe in the quiet with me

Verse

Rain on the window makes a slow, patient song

Your laugh in the kitchen — soft, a place where I belong

Coins in the dish like tiny planets we forgot (la-la)

An old mixtape crawls back to the first track that we got

Pre-chorus

Little rituals, the way we made the morning move (move)

The hush between the sentences that learned to prove

That simple things can hold you, like a sweater in the cold

Like the way you call my name when there’s nothing left to hold

Chorus

Stay a little longer, stay a little longer, stay a little longer (oh)

Lean your shoulder on my day, let the world drift farther, farther, farther (yeah)

Stay a little longer, stay a little longer, stay a little longer (mm)

Breathe in the quiet with me, breathe in the quiet with me

Bridge

Soft tape, soft crackle, the room is an old photograph (mm-mm)

We move in small gestures, we move slow and we laugh (uh-huh)

Hold this for the keeping — tiny light, tiny room

Fold the day into your pocket, keep it like a tune (la-la)

Chorus

Stay a little longer, stay a little longer, stay a little longer (oh)

Lean your shoulder on my day, let the world drift farther, farther, farther (yeah)

Stay a little longer, stay a little longer, stay a little longer (mm)

Breathe in the quiet with me, breathe in the quiet with me