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2021 Music Hole Award Winner | |
This article is a winner of the 2021 Music Hole Awards. It won for the following category: Best Season 7+8 Song. It was also nominated for the categories, "Best Marceline Song," "Best Emotional Song," and "Best Song" but it didn't win for any of them. |
2021 Golden Stake Nomination | |
This article was nominated in the 2021 Golden Stake Awards. It was nominated for the following category: Best Song However, it didn't win for this category |
"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[]
Lyrics (Marceline solo)[]
Marceline: 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 |
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 sung by Marceline and her mother)[]
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Chords[]
Intro/Outro
G Cmaj7 G Cmaj7
Verse
G Cmaj7 G F#dim7
Em C7 D7
G Cmaj7 G F#dim7
Em C7 G
Chorus
[first 3 beats silent] Am Em ("Everything stays right where you left it")
Em D D#dim7 Em ("Everything stays, but it still changes")
G7 Cmaj7 Cm7b5 Bm ("Ever so slightly, daily and nightly")
Am B Em ("In little ways, when everything stays")
[N.B. Each line of chords is 4 counts of 3 beats. Some chords last for 6 beats. These have been bolded.]
Ice King's Lyrics[]
Ice King (Extinct World) covered the song in "Jerry", changing most of the lyrics to be about an "Everything Bagel" instead of the song's original intention. He sang into a hair brush wore a wig similar to Marceline's hair when doing it.
Everything bagel Right where I left it Old fashioned glazed Smooshed on the carpet |
Ever so slightly Put the cream cheese on lightly In little ways |
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.[1]
- An extended version of the song which features the verse in the SDCC 2018 performance is available to stream on Spotify and other music streaming services.
- 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").[2]
External links[]
- Rebecca Sugar and Olivia Olson performing Everything Stays at the SDCC 2015 Adventure Time & Steven Universe panel
- Official song from Steven Universe's Soundcloud
- Cover version by Joshua Turchin
- Instrumental version of Everything Stays on Tim Kiefer's Soundcloud
- Instrumental extended version of Everything Stays on Tim Kiefer's Soundcloud
References[]
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbBaGRboDVs
- ā Olson: "My favorite Marceline song is probably āEverything Staysā or āSlow ā ā"