Wish I Stayed Lyrics

Ellie Goulding

• Why can't we speak another language
• One we all agree on?
• Why when men look outside, they see houses
• Instead of the fields they grew from?
• We are constantly uprooted from them
• Making us tiresome and fearful
• Can you get up right now
• Endeavor to free fall?
• 'Cause you can fall if you want to
• It's just a matter of how far
• You've treasured our hometown
• You've forgotten where you are
• And it will stay with you
• Till your mind's been found
• And it has been found wandering around
• With that skipping rope, the trampoline
• The crafty smoke that made us choke
• But we didn't give up hope
• It's just the simple ways of getting paid
• The carelessness of running away
• I wish I stayed, I wish I stayed, I wish I stayed
• Patterns all arranged in my background
• Pillars and posts keeping this country on form
• Letters were all sent with no addresses
• So that people can't discover
• That we're always under cover
• Why do I always draw triangles
• Instead of words this paper deserves?
• 'Cause you see, I don't own my clothes but I own my mind
• And it's not what you've lost but it's what you find
• With that skipping rope, the trampoline
• The crafty smoke that made us choke
• But we didn't give up hope
• It's the simple ways of getting paid
• The carelessness of running away
• I wish I stayed, I wish I stayed
• 'Cause you can fall if you want to
• It's just a matter of how far
• You've treasured our hometown
• You've forgotten where you are
• And it will stay with you
• Till your mind's been found
• And it has been found wandering around
• With that skipping rope, the trampoline
• The crafty smoke that made us choke
• But we didn't give up hope
• It's just the simple ways of getting paid
• The carelessness of running away
• I wish I stayed, I wish I stayed, I wish I stayed
• I wish I stayed, I wish I stayed