“Put Your Bags Down and Stay”

By: Arabella Gordon © 

 

Verse:

I miss it when we were first in love.  Our hearts, our reach, our open words

Big plans, dark secrets, could not hold it back, no

Now often our talks mean biting our tongues;  Fearing either might say something wrong

Caring to avoid any situation or misunderstanding that could end this song

 

Chorus:

But all you had to do was put your bags down and stay

If you held me yesterday, we'd still be together

I could not swallow pride enough to say

If you hold me now, tomorrow we'll be together …. still,  babe

 

Verse:

I remember the magic of the pheromone high;  Before we even met, on the phone that night

My heart was trippin' on a train, date ten twenty-five (October 2025)

You said I resurrected your dead life;  The beat was strengthening, our future was quickening

Memories of making love, that hasn't happened yet

How to turn it one-eighty in this impasse?

 

Chorus:

But all you had to do was put your bags down and stay

If you held me yesterday, we'd still be together

I could not swallow pride enough to say

If you hold me now, tomorrow we'll be together …. still,  babe

 

Bridge:

Now I wonder what to do, what's my next game plan?

You wonder how you foolishly, folded on your winning hand

Friends and admirers all around, asking for the next dance, a chance to be my rebound

But still I hear you singing to me, first song that you ever sent me, YouTube was playing in the background

 

Chorus:

But all you had to do was put your bags down and stay

If you held me yesterday, we'd still be together

I could not swallow pride enough to say

If you hold me now, tomorrow we'll be together, together….

 

Ending Chorus & Ad-Libs:

All you had to do was put your bags down and stay

Mmm…You don't have to walk out again

I could not swallow pride enough to say

Mmm.. I've got the words now, anyway 

C'mon baby, 

All you have to do now, put your bags down and stay

If you hold me now, tomorrow we'll be together, ….still, babe

Hold me now and tomorrow we'll be together, still, babe

Hold me now, tomorrow be together, together

Hold me now, tomorrow be together, together, ….still,  babe