Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
Ellie Goulding
“Wish I Stayed” is an electronic ballad about missing home: it was one of the first songs Ellie has ever written, when she was only eighteen years old.
The track evokes the memories of a young Ellie, when she had to quit her home in the countryside in order to move to London: she eventually regrets...
[Verse 1]
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 and
Endeavor to freefall?
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause you can fall if you want to
It's just a matter of how far
You've treasured your 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
[Chorus]
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
But I wish I stayed
I wish I stayed
I wish I stayed
[Verse 2]
Patterns all arranged in my background
These 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 undercover
Why do I always draw triangles
Instead of the words this paper so 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
[Chorus]
You found 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
I wish I stayed
[Pre-Chorus]
'Cause you can fall if you want to
It's just a matter of how far
You've treasured your 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
[Chorus]
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
I wish I stayed
I wish I stayed
I wish I stayed
Wish I Stayed was written by Ellie Goulding.
Wish I Stayed was produced by Frankmusik.
Ellie Goulding released Wish I Stayed on Fri Feb 26 2010.