I Only Wanted

Mariah Carey

La-la-la-la-la
Mmm…

Doesn't it ever stay
Must it always fade away
Couldn't love ever be
Something tangible and real
Farewell, fairweather friend
Abandonment returns to taunt me again

I only wanted you to stay
Linger and mean the word you said
Foolishly I romanticized
Someone was saving my life for the first time
I only wanted you to be there when I opened up my eyes…

I…was caught in your masquerade
Wish I'd stayed beneath my veil
But it just seemed so easy to
Open up myself to you
Oh, once more into the wind the embers scatter
And the chill settles in

I, I only wanted you to stay
Linger and mean the word you said
Foolishly I romanticized
Someone was saving my life for the first time
I only wanted you to be there when I opened up my eyes…
Eye-ooh-ooh-s
Na-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum
Dum-dum-dum, dum-dum-dum-dum
Dum-dum-dum-dum, oh

Oh, ho, ho
I only wanted you to stay
Linger and mean the word you said
Foolishly I romanticized
Someone was saving my life for the first time
I only wanted you to, to be the one to get me through that night
I only wanted you to be there when I opened up my eyes…
Oh…
Doesn't it ever stay?
I only wanted you to stay