Stay Like This

Stay like this mmm

You call a truce when I'm elbow deep in dishes

Smiling like we ain't got unfinished business

You want the laugh, the touch, the temporary high

But I'm tired of hellos that always follow with goodbyes

Don't call a truce

If you're gonna do it again

Don't pull me close

If staying isn't the plan

You look at me like you want me

But for how long?

We find our way back to each other

Then boom, it's gone

So forgive me if I don't trust it

I've already heard this song

I don't need another truce

Another temporary thing

I want somebody who stays

And a desire that never leaves

I need something that survives

Something that brings me alive

Just wanna feel that spark

Light a fire inside my heart

Here you come again

With that devilish grin

Like you ain't been avoiding me all week

Got me rolling my eyes

Telling you get off me

But I hate how much

I want you to need me

Funny how a conversation

Can hold a mirror to your soul

Make you realize you've been starving

On crumbs when you need much more

I wasn't looking for nobody

Wasn't trying to compare

But hearing what love sounds like

Made me notice what wasn't there

Maybe you were never the lesson

Maybe you were just the proof

A mirror showing me the difference

Between attention and the truth

Cause I got so used to almost

I forgot what I deserved

Got comfortable with crumbs of love

And forgot about my worth

Spent years turning silence

Into words I never heard

I wasn't chasing somebody else

I was chasing how I felt

The version of me that came alive

When I stopped settling for less

Now I see the difference

Between being wanted...

And being kept

So if you're gonna call a truce

Then stay like this a little longer

Don't disappear when the hard times hit

Don't make me fall back into you

Just to leave me wondering if

Every smile was temporary

Every touch was just a fix

If you're gonna hold me tonight

Then stay like this

Cause I don't need another moment

I need something that remains

When the laughter quits

And we're staring at the pain

I don't need perfect timing

I don't need a grand event

I just need to know your love

Still exists when the magic ends

I need more than passing glances

More than laughing for a while

I've been hungry for passion

But settling for a smile

I need a passion that survives

When the moment fades away

The kind that makes me feel desired

Even when there's nothing left to say

Maybe that's why I pull away

When you reach for me sometimes

Cause I've learned not to trust the feelin

When it fades all the time

It's not the touch that scares me

It's losing it again

Getting a glimpse of what I need

Then watching it end

Somewhere along the way I noticed

I've been settling for less

Getting pieces of a picture

Trying to call it happiness

I don't need perfect

I just need honest

Cause the hardest part ain't losing you

It's never knowing who you'll be

So if you're gonna hold me...

Hold me like you mean it

If you're gonna love me...

Do it with intent

Stay like this

Stay like this