• Artist: Mariah Carey
• Song Title: I Only Wanted
• Album: Charmbracelet

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

CHORUS:
I only wanted you to stay.
Linger and mean the words 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.
Once more into the wind,
The embers scatter,
And the chill settles in.

REPEAT CHORUS

GUITAR SOLO

Oh, I only wanted you to stay,
Linger and mean the words you said.
Foolishly I romanticized,
Someone was saving my life.
For the first time,
I only wanted you 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…