Sivan describes How to Stay with You as an ‘open ending’ to the album. He sums up the song as up a reflection of having ‘no idea what the future holds’ but being ‘okay with that’. Sivan asserts that the sax solo fade-out is an ‘important part’.
[Verse 1]
Cut my garden down
I've got no flowers, but it's the thought that counts
Wish you lived a little closer
Maybe when we're a little older
We can set up shop, ah
Back where you are or I can take you home
I feel like my brother might like you
Just not in the same way I do, yeah
[Pre-Chorus]
Boy, I wish you were the piece
To get me out the game
If I have to say what I mean
Is it fair to say?
All of these visions
Impair my decisions
And I can't stop
[Chorus]
I'm a little bit fucked on this
I'm a littlе bit out of time to spend with you
Baby, turn around, give mе one more kiss
I'm a little bit lost on how to stay with you
[Verse 2]
I turn my bussy out
It's been a sec, but I didn't forget
How to pull you in closer
In case it's not till we're older
That we reach the top
The pinnacle of everything we are
I feel like my mother might like you
Just not in the same way I do
[Pre-Chorus]
Boy, I wish you were the piece
To get me out the game
If I have to say what I mean
Is it fair to say?
All of these visions impair my decisions
And I can't stop
[Chorus]
I'm a little bit fucked on this
I'm a little bit out of time to spend with you
Baby, turn around, give me one more kiss
I'm a little bit lost on how to stay with you, yeah
[Outro]
Startin' again when I got all I wanted
Startin' to feel a little bit despondent, yeah
Yeah
Startin' again when I got all I wanted
Startin' to feel a little bit despondent
How To Stay With You was written by Troye Sivan & Leland & OZGO & A. G. Cook.
How To Stay With You was produced by OZGO & A. G. Cook.
Troye Sivan released How To Stay With You on Fri Oct 13 2023.
It’s really cruisy and mellow, it’s got saxophone on it. It’s about someone I met who ended up leaving, and I was a bit lost on how to stay with them, because I wanted to, but it didn’t seem possible. There was something interesting to me about putting it at the end. Throughout all the experiences a...
Every time I worked with AG I pushed myself so hard and so far, it was super exciting to see what would happen. And then one day I just said “I’m not going to put that pressure on myself”. So I just relaxed and we had this song come together. I’d just had this really beautiful experience with someon...