All You Had To Do Was Stay (Jamie's Version)

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Taken from: 1989 (Jamie's Version)

Inspired by both the Taylor Swift original & Ryan Adams versions and in celebration of the release 1989 (Taylor's Version).

1989 (Jamie's Version) is both a pastiche and a love letter to my favourite pop album of the last decade and marks the beginning of a new chapter in both my musical and personal life and a return to producing music as a solo artist.

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People like you always want back the love they gave away
And people like me wanna believe when you say you've changed
The more I think about it now the less I know
All I know is that you drove us off the road

All you had to do was stay
All you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, now you say you want it
Back now that it's just too late
Well it could've been easy
All you had to do was stay

Here you are now, calling me up, but I don't know what to say
'Cause I've been picking up the pieces of the mess you made
People like you always want back the love they pushed aside
But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye

Stay, all you had to do was stay
Had me in the palm of your hand
Why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in
Stay, now you say you want it back
Now that it's just too late
Well could've been easy
All you had to do was stay

Could have been easy
All you had to do was stay
Could have been easy
All you had to do was stay
Stay
All you had to do was stay
Stay

This was what you wanted
All you had to do was stay
You were all I wanted
All you had to do was stay
This was what you wanted
All you had to do was stay
You were all I wanted
All you had to do was stay

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released October 27, 2023
Written By: Taylor Swift, Max Martin

Performed By: Jamie "Maca" McHale

Produced By: Jamie "Maca" McHale

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Recorded in 2023 at Ridgeburn Studios, Perth, Scotland

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Photo: Keira Mackie

Art: Jamie "Maca" McHale

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Funded by: The McHale Foundation for Delusional Offspring

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Maca Perth and Kinross, UK

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Adult contemporary eclecticism and self indulgent guitar playing from Perth, Scotland.

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