Please Stay - Lucy Dacus

Your clothes in the dryer

Your hair on the shower wall

Your toothbrush is too much

Your shoes empty in the hall

Your keys on the counter

Your dirty dish in the sink

Please don’t make me see these things

The books on your shelf that you never read

The hunting knife you kept by your bed

The flowers you dried and tied up with twine

Suspended from the ceiling

You tell me you love me like it’ll be th last time

Like you’re playing out th end of a storyline

I say I love you too because it’s true

What else am I supposed to do?

Maybe bar the door when you move to leave

I think you mean what you say

When you say you wanna die

I think you mean what you say

When you say you want to stay alive

Quit your job

Cut your hair

Get a dog

Change your name

Change your mind

Change your ways

Give them time

Go back to school, go back to sleep

Tell the secret you can’t keep

Begin, be done

Break a vow, make a new one

Call me if you need a friend or never talk to me again

But please stay

But please stay

But please stay

But please stay