Stay Here Instead Lyrics - Singles - Premiere Cast

MARGRET (spoken) 

He's not coming. 

CARRIE (spoken) 

He is coming! 

MARGRET (spoken) 

Don't you see? You mustn't go. 

(sung) 

Stay here instead. 

Just tell me what you'd like to do. 

We'll talk and we'll laugh, 

And I'll sing to you. 

And I promise you, we won't fight. 

Don't leave tonight. 

CARRIE 

Mama, I'm late. 

MARGRET 

That boy doesn't care, not at all. 

CARRIE 

He'll be here at eight. 

MARGRET 

He'll build you up only to watch you fall. 

Carrie, 

You don't know these people, 

They're not your friends. 

Carrie. 

They're only waiting to tear you in two. 

CARRIE (spoken) 

What if they like me? 

MARGRET 

Just like your father, 

they'll leave when they're through. 

CARRIE (spoken) 

They might like me. 

They'll like me. 

MARGRET (spoken) 

You're such a FOOL! 

(sung) 

Aren't you aware, 

how people deceive? 

They'll take you and break you, 

And then, they will leave you. 

Carrie, Carrie, Carrie. 

You are the love I was betrayed for. 

My pride and my shame. 

My Carrie, 

Carrie, we're one and the same. 

Oh Carrie. 

CARRIE 

I'll always love you. 

MARGRET 

Don't go. 

(spoken) 

Don't go. 

(sung) 

Don't go. 

(spoken) 

I'll say you're sick. 

I'll say you've changed your mind. 

CARRIE (spoken) 

You'll say nothing, Mama! 

You'll stay here and not say a word!