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Album: The Great Divide (2026)
Charted: 33
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  • Half as drunk as I thought I'd be by now, that's good
    I can still see the people around me change shape
    Speak their minds and pretend they were misunderstood
    While preachin' 'bout sin over lines of cocaine

    Even when you're not here, it becomes about you
    They all want me to tell 'em your story
    You broke in and stole China from our livin' room
    Kinda makes all the other parts boring

    You stand over half a foot taller than me
    Your marks on the wall of the weight room
    Naïve to believe you would come back and see
    If I could finally take you

    Oh, well, I'd beat your ass 'til the morning
    You know I've been running all this time
    Sprinting my way past your bedroom
    Lifting the weight of you off my mind
    'Cause if I never see you again
    You can be anything I want
    Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
    Teachin' me how the thing runs

    Stay gone
    Won't you stay gone?
    Stay gone
    Stay gone

    Tattooed your initials into my right arm
    So I'd see your name when if I lift up a drink
    There ain't nothing else here worth catching up on
    So I hope that it's warm wherever you sleep

    And I've got a feeling that won't go away
    The doctors are calling it "just moving on"
    I still ball up my fists when they mention your name
    No one gets to talk shit but the ones you've shit on

    Well, I'll beat your ass in the morning
    You know I've been running all this time
    Sprinting my way past your bedroom
    Lifting the weight of you off my mind
    'Cause if I never see you again
    You can be anything I want
    Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
    Teachin' me how the thing runs

    Stay gone
    Stay gone
    Won't you stay gone?
    Stay gone

    Yeah, well, I'll beat your ass until morning
    Know I've been running all this time
    Sprinting my way past your bedroom
    Lifting the weight of you off my mind
    'Cause if I never see you again
    You can be anything I want
    Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
    Teachin' me how the thing runs
    Twenty-three, clean in the engine heat
    It can all be the way that it was

    If you stay gone
    Stay gone
    Won't you stay gone?
    Stay gone Writer/s: Noah Kahan
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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