Right Where You Left Me - All You Had To Do Was Stay Live chords by Taylor Swift

• Capo on 3rd
• Difficulty: Beginner

Performance @ Zurich Night 1 2024

Key: A

Intro:

E F#m D A E

Verse:
E
Friends break up, friends get married
F#m
Strangers get born, strangers get buried
D
Trends change, rumors fly through new skies
   A           E
But I'm right where you left me
E

Matches burn after the other
F#m
Pages turn and stick to each other
D
Wages earned and lessons learned
    A          E
But I, I'm right where you left me

Pre-Chorus:
E                F#m
Help, I'm still at the restaurant
                D
Still sitting in a corner I haunt

Cross-legged in the dim light
A               E
They say, "What a sad sight," I
E                  F#m
I swear you could hear a hair pin drop
                D
Right when I felt the moment stop

Glass shattered on the white cloth
A          E  Bm
Everybody moved on, I, I stayed there
           A
Dust collected on my pinned-up hair
E           Bm
They expected me to find somewhere
             A        E
Some perspective, but I sat and stared right where

Chorus:
E          F#m          D
You left me, you left me no, oh, you left me no
   A             E
You left me no choice but to stay here forever

Interlude:
Bm A E

Verse 1:
D               A
People like you always want back
           E
The love they gave away
               F#m
And people like me wanna believe you
             D
When you say you've changed
              A
The more I think about it now
       E
The less I know
             F#m
All I know is that you drove us
E
Off the road

Chorus:
D                 A
(Stay) Hey, all you had to do was stay
              E
Had me in the palm of your hand, then
              F#m
Why'd you have to go and lock me out when I let you in?
D                  A
(Stay) Hey, now you say you want it back
            E              F#m
Now that it's just too late, well, could've been easy

All you had to do was (Stay)

Post-Chorus:
 D              A
All you had to do was (Stay)
              E
All you had to do was (Stay)
          F#m
All you had to do was

All You Had to Do Was Stay Bridge:
E
Let me remind you
D     A      E
This was what you wanted (Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh)
F#m
You ended it
D     A     E
You were all I wanted (Oh, oh, oh-oh-oh)
E
But not like this

Interlude:
A

Right Where You Left Me Bridge:
E *                    F#m *
Did you ever hear about the girl who got frozen?
                      D *
Time went on for everybody else, she won't know it
                  A *
She's still twenty-three inside her fantasy
      E *      E
How it was supposed to be
                      F#m
Did you hear about the girl who lives in delusion?
                       D
Breakups happen every day, you don't have to lose it
                   A
She's still twenty-three inside her fantasy
            E
And you're sitting in front of me

Pre-Chorus:
       F#m
At the restaurant
               D
When I was still the one you want

Cross-legged in the dim light
 A             E
Everything was just right, I
             F#m
I could feel the mascara run
               D
You told me that you met someone

Glass shattered on the white cloth
A         E
Everybody moved on
E                F#m
Help, I'm still at the restaurant
                D
Still sitting in a corner I haunt

Cross-legged in the dim light
A                E Bm
They say, "What a sad sight," I, I stayed there
           A
Dust collected on my pinned-up hair
E             Bm
I'm sure that you got a wife out there
               A         E
Kids and Christmas, but I'm unaware 'cause I'm right where
  Bm
I cause no harm, mind my business
    A          E              Bm
If our love died young, I can't bear witness, and it's been so long
            A         E
If you ever think you got it wrong, I'm right where

Chorus:
         F#m          D
You left me, you left me no, oh, you left me no
   A             E
You left me no choice but to stay here forever
F#m
So all you had to do was stay?
D
and all you had to do was stay
A
all you had to do was stay
E             A *
all you had to do was stay