Everything Stays (Adventure Time)

"**Everything Stays**" is a song featured in "Everything Stays", where Marceline's mother sings it to comfort a young Marceline. It is sung by Marceline herself in the final scene of "The Dark Cloud".

It is the first song that Rebecca Sugar wrote for *Adventure Time* after leaving the show to work on *Steven Universe*. The song was first revealed at the 2015 San Diego Comic Con *Adventure Time* & *Steven Universe* panel.

## Lyrics (Marceline Solo)

**Verse 1**

Lets go in the garden you'll find something waiting,

Right there where you left it lying upside down,

When you finally find it you'll see how it's faded,

The underside is lighter when you turn it around

**Chorus**

Everything stays right where you left it,

Everything stays but it still changes

Ever so slightly daily and nightly in little ways

When everything stays

## Lyrics (as song by Marceline and her mother)

**Verse 1**

**Marceline's mom:** Let's go in the garden

You'll find something waiting

**Together:** Right there where you left it lying upside down

When you finally find it you'll see how it's faded

The underside is lighter when you turn it around

**Chorus**

Everything stays

Right where you left it

## SDCC 2017 performance

**Rebecca:**

Let's go in the garden you'll find something waiting, right there where you left it lying upside down

When you finally find it, you'll see how it's faded the underside is lighter, when you turn it around

**Chorus**

Everything stays, right where you left it

Everything stays, but it still changes

Ever so slightly, daily and nightly In little ways, when everything stays

**Olivia:** (humming)

Everything stays, right where you left it

Everything stays, but it still changes

Ever so slightly, daily and nightly

In little ways, when everything stays

**Both:**

Ever so slightly, daily and nightly

In little ways, when everything stays

## SDCC 2018 performance

**Rebecca:**

Let's go in the garden, you'll find something waiting

Right there where you left it, lying upside down

When you finally find it, you'll see how it's faded

The underside is lighter, when you turn it around

**Chorus**

Everything stays, right where you left it

Everything stays, but it still changes

Ever so slightly, daily and nightly

In little ways, when everything stays

**Olivia:**

Go down to the ocean, the crystal tide is raising

The water's gotten higher as the shore washes out

keep your eyes wide open even when the sun is blazing

The moon controls the tide it can cause you to drown

**Chorus**

Everything stays ,right where you left it

Everything stays ,but it still changes

Ever so slightly, daily and nightly

In little ways when everything stays

**Both**

Ever so slightly ,daily and nightly

In little ways when everything stays

## Trivia

* It is the first song to be played in the *Stakes* miniseries.
* When this song was sung to Marceline by her mother, it possibly inspired her love for music.
* This song was inspired by a stuffed rabbit Rebecca Sugar owned as a child which at one point was lost in her garden: when she found it 6 months later the toy's belly had faded to a white color. Spinel, a character from *Steven Universe*, was inspired by the same toy.
* An extended version of the song which features the verse in the SDCC 2018 performance is available to stream on Spotify .
* In April 5, 2020, the 10th anniversary of Adventure Time, Olivia Olson commented in the live stream that this is one of her two favorite Marceline songs (the other one is "Slow Dance With You").