[Verse 1]
You came in bruised
I came in broke
Both of us learned
the wrong kind of hope
Your old ghosts talk
in my ear at night
I cut them off
I want this right
[Pre-Chorus]
We stay through it
when the room goes cold
We stay through it
and we break the mold
I’m unlearning
every cruel little line
I won’t carry
what was never mine
[Chorus]
Stay through the hard times
stay, stay
We don’t do poison
that way
Stay through the hard times
stay, stay
We learn new love
day by day
(Stay through the hard times)
[Verse 2]
No more locking doors
No more silent wars
No more running back
to the same old scars
If you shake, I hold
If I fall, you stay
We don’t build a home
out of yesterday
[Pre-Chorus]
We stay through it
when the tears come down
We stay through it
we don’t leave this now
I’m unlearning
all the hands that hurt
I want soft truth
I want what works
[Chorus]
Stay through the hard times
stay, stay
We don’t do poison
that way
Stay through the hard times
stay, stay
We learn new love
day by day
(Stay through the hard times)
[Bridge]
I was sharp like glass
you were fire in rain
Now we speak it clean
we name the pain
If the past comes back
let it lose the door
I’m not her anymore
I’m not her anymore
[Final Chorus]
Stay through the hard times
stay, stay
We don’t do poison
that way
Stay through the hard times
stay, stay
We learn new love
day by day
Stay through the hard times
stay, stay
We choose peace
we choose us today
(Stay through the hard times)
(Stay through the hard times)