Take Everything I've Got But Don’t Go

(Stavroula Mitsea)

This song dives into the kind of love that feels like walking on broken glass—where you’re terrified of losing someone, so you start shrinking yourself just to keep them close. It captures the late-night overthinking, the self-blame, the desperation to hold on. It’s raw, vulnerable, and brutally honest, the kind of song people cling to when they’re trying to love someone who keeps slipping away.

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Verse 1: 
If I bite my tongue, bottle up the pain 
If I write a song, maybe If I pray 
Tell me, will you stay? Tell me, will you stay? 
If I gave it all, would you throw it all away 
Sorry, please forget all I’ve said just in case 
I’ve said a single thing that made you wanna run away 
I will give you truth and you can lie to my face 
Anything for you to say that everything’s okay 
 
Pre-Chorus: 
I will stay awake all night revisiting 
Our conversations finding flaws in everything 
Everything I said, war inside my head 
I used to have a fire in me, burning red 
 
Chorus: 
I don’t keep score of what I give 
Oh, have it all, but just don’t leave 
And all you say I will believe 
Let’s build a lie for me to live 
I don’t keep count of what I take 
And all the promises you break 
Only one thing I’m begging for 
Take everything I’ve got but don’t go 
 
Verse 2: 
Said you need me now, must mean something more 
Must mean you love me, love me for sure 
Don’t know why I’m so insecure 
What my insides are screaming for 
Can’t stray, can’t go far away 
‘Cause you don’t have better plans today 
And I might be dying here today 
Could be worse, I know, you could walk away 
 
Pre-Chorus: 
I will stay awake all night revisiting 
Our conversations finding flaws in everything 
Everything I said, war inside my head 
I used to have a hope in me, but now it's dead 
 
Chorus: 
I don’t keep score of what I give 
Oh, have it all, but just don’t leave 
And all you say I will believe 
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