Holly Humberstone – Please Don’t Leave Just Yet Lyrics

Please Don’t Leave Just Yet Lyrics by Holly Humberstone

On “Please Don’t Leave Just Yet”, Holly is heavily inspired by Matty Healy’s The 1975’s both sonority and lyricism, exploring the scenario of falling for someone online and giving them a little too much, without thinking about the possibilities of this person to just leave.

This is a recurrent theme on The 1975’s November 2018’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships and May 2020’s Notes on a Conditional Form. Both albums contribute to “Music for Cars” era, in which explores the impact of technology upon young people; the explosiveness of modern society as a whole and, most notably, the relationship between a human and a robot, along with the sad outcome of it.

Matty elaborated the purpose of “Music for Cars” in a November 2019 interview with Dork:

[…] A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships’ is all relationships. I’m talking about all relationships that are mediated online.

Holly Humberstone seems to mirror this thought on the lyrics of “Please Don’t Leave Just Yet”, as well as attaching her personal despair onto it, in order to make a connection between her song and her hero’s band.

[Verse 1: Holly Humberstone, Matthew Healy]
I know you’re getting over it and working on your next step
Spend three cold weeks on a mattress and a sleepless head
(I know you’re getting over it)
I heard her on a phone, when you said “I’m having a cigarette”
(I’m having a cigarette)
And I know I’m only young, but I’m not a fucking idiot

[Pre-Chorus: Holly Humberstone]
And even if it’s all just a waste of my breath
For five minutes, can we, please, just talk before you jet?
And you said, “Honey, there’s no use in getting all upset”
(I know you’re getting over it)
And I said, “Please, don’t leave just yet”

[Chorus: Holly Humberstone with Matthew Healy]
I don’t wanna need your love, your love, anymore
But I just do, I just do
I don’t wanna need your love, your love, anymore
Like I used to— I just do, I just do
(I know you’re getting over it)

[Verse 2: Holly Humberstone with Matthew Healy]
Maybe, I’ll find a piece of you in someone else’s bed
Maybe, in the next life, there’s some other time when I’m less obsessed
(I know you’re getting over it)

[Pre-Chorus: Holly Humberstone]
And I can tell you’re over it by the amount you’re on the internet
And I’ll even help you pack your shit
But, please don’t leave just yet— Don’t leave just yet

[Chorus: Holly Humberstone with Matthew Healy]
I don’t wanna need your love, your love, anymore
But I just do, I just do
I don’t wanna need your love, your love, anymore
Like I used to— I just do, I just do

[Post-Chorus: Holly Humberstone]
I think I gave a little too much, didn’t I?
(I think I gave a little too much)
Think I gave a little too much, didn’t I?

[Bridge: Holly Humberstone]
And even if it’s all just a waste of my breath
For five minutes, can we, please, just talk before you jet?
Don’t leave just yet

[Chorus: Holly Humberstone with Matthew Healy]
I don’t wanna need your love, your love, anymore
But I just do, I just do (I just do)
(Just do) I don’t wanna need your love, your love, anymore
Like I used to— I just do, I just do

[Outro: Holly Humberstone]
I just do
(I know you’re getting over it)