All You Had to Do Was Stay

創作背景

這首歌是泰勒寫給她的前男友哈里·斯泰爾斯的一首歌。在歌曲中，泰勒指出了無論她做什麼，她似乎都再也無法讓他留下了，這個特別的男人的猶豫不決把這場愛毀滅了。

泰勒曾在一個訪談中提到，這首歌的靈感是她的一個夢，在那個夢裡她的前男友出現在她家門前，踢著門，她打開了門並且準備好了重新投入這場感情中，但無論怎么做都只能用很高的聲音說“Stay”這個詞，後來她就寫了這首歌，然而那個很高的“Stay”成為了這支單曲的靈魂。

People like you always want back

The love they gave away

People like me want to believe you

When you say you've changed

The more I think about it now

The less I knowAll I know is that you drove us

Off the road

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Hey- all you had to do was stay

Had me in the palm of your hand then

Why'd you have to go and lock me out

When I let you in

Hey- now you say you want it back

Now that it's just too late

Well, it could've been easy

All you had to do was stay

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Here you are now

Calling me up

But I don't know what to say

I've been picking up the pieces of the mess you made

People like you always want back

The love they pushed aside

But people like me are gone forever

When you say goodbye

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Hey- all you had to do was stay