Stay for Breakfast

Verse 1

Fingerpicked guitar and voice

You're looking for your shoe in the darkSame as every Sunday, same soft goodbyeYou kiss me like you're sorryThen you feel for the doorBut the coffee's already on

Pre-Chorus

I know you leave before they leave youBut I'm not going anywhere

Chorus

Stay for breakfast, stay a whileI'll burn the toast, you'll smileDon't leave before the kettle singsStay for breakfast, stay a while

Verse 2

Your mother never set a place for youSo I bought a second chairIt's been waiting since the springWaiting just the way I do

Pre-Chorus

I know you leave before they leave youBut I'm not going anywhere

Chorus

Soft piano and strings enter

Stay for breakfast, stay a whileI'll burn the toast, you'll smileDon't leave before the kettle singsStay for breakfast, stay a while

Bridge

Falsetto, then building to a gritty belt

I'm scared too, if you want the truthI'd rather be scared here with you

Final Chorus

Full band, voice tearing open

Stay for breakfast, stay a whileI'll burn the toast, you'll smileDon't leave before the kettle singsStay for breakfast, stay a whileStay for breakfast, stay a whileI'll burn the toast, you'll smileDon't leave before the kettle singsStay for breakfast, stay a lifetime