How To Stay With You Lyrics
Cut my garden down
I've got no flowers, but it's the thought that counts
Wish you lived a little closer
Maybe when we're a little older
We can set up shop, ah
Back where you are or I can take you home
I feel like my brother might like you
Just not in the same way I do, yeah
[Pre-Chorus]
Boy, I wish you were the piece
To get me out the game
If I have to say what I mean
Is it fair to say?
All of these visions
Impair my decisions
And I can't stop
[Chorus]
I'm a little bit fucked on this
I'm a littlе bit out of time to spend with you
Baby, turn around, give mе one more kiss
I'm a little bit lost on how to stay with you
[Verse 2]
I turn my bussy out
It's been a sec, but I didn't forget
How to pull you in closer
In case it's not till we're older
That we reach the top
The pinnacle of everything we are
I feel like my mother might like you
Just not in the same way I do
Boy, I wish you were the piece
To get me out the game
If I have to say what I mean
Is it fair to say?
All of these visions impair my decisions
And I can't stop
[Chorus]
I'm a little bit fucked on this
I'm a little bit out of time to spend with you
Baby, turn around, give me one more kiss
I'm a little bit lost on how to stay with you, yeah
[Outro]
Startin' again when I got all I wanted
Startin' to feel a little bit despondent, yeah
Yeah
Startin' again when I got all I wanted
Startin' to feel a little bit despondent
About
Sivan describes How to Stay with You as an ‘open ending’ to the album. He sums up the song as up a reflection of having ‘no idea what the future holds’ but being ‘okay with that’. Sivan asserts that the sax solo fade-out is an ‘important part’.
Q&A
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Every time I worked with AG I pushed myself so hard and so far, it was super exciting to see what would happen. And then one day I just said “I’m not going to put that pressure on myself”. So I just relaxed and we had this song come together. I’d just had this really beautiful experience with someone that was super fleeting because they were leaving. So it felt sweet to explore that idea – I’m a bit lost on how to stay with you and it was this feeling of being annoyed of having to start again. You finally found something that’s feeling good and it’s back to the drawing board. The slow fade out with the sax solo was important to me. I wanted to end on that note where it’s like “OK, well you know, here we go again”. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? I don’t know. Let’s see!
It’s really cruisy and mellow, it’s got saxophone on it. It’s about someone I met who ended up leaving, and I was a bit lost on how to stay with them, because I wanted to, but it didn’t seem possible. There was something interesting to me about putting it at the end. Throughout all the experiences and people on the album, I still have this longing and desire to find a long-term relationship. When it fades out in the outro, the last lyrics on the album are these little background vocals: ‘Starting again when I got all I wanted/Starting to feel a little bit despondent.’ I still haven’t found the thing I’m looking for. It doesn’t negate these prior experiences and how beautiful they are, but I’m still looking. I thought it was a very real way to end it. I’m on this journey, I’m really happy and I’m enjoying every second of it, I’m so grateful for all the connections, and I’m curious to see what happens next. But I don’t know what that is yet.
– Troye Sivan via Apple Music (October 13, 2023)
- 1.Rush
- 4.In My Room
- 5.Still Got It
- 8.Silly
- 9.Honey
- 10.How To Stay With You