In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
If this world is wearing thin
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand
(Stay) Stay with me
Stay with me
In the silence of your room
In the darkness of your dreams
You must only think of me
There can be no in between
When your pride is on the floor
I'll make you beg for more
(Stay) Stay with me
Stay with me
You'd better hope and pray
That you make it safe back to your own world
You'd better hope and pray
That you'll wake one day in your own world
'Cause when you sleep at night
They don't hear your cries in your own world
Only time will tell
If you can break the spell back in your own world
(Stay) Stay with me
(Stay) Stay with me
(Stay) Stay, stay with me, ah-ha
(Stay) Stay, stay, stay, stay, stay
(Stay) Stay with me
And you're thinking of escape
I'll go anywhere with you
Just wrap me up in chains
But if you try to go alone
Don't think I'll understand
(Stay) Stay with me
Stay with me
In the silence of your room
In the darkness of your dreams
You must only think of me
There can be no in between
When your pride is on the floor
I'll make you beg for more
(Stay) Stay with me
Stay with me
You'd better hope and pray
That you make it safe back to your own world
You'd better hope and pray
That you'll wake one day in your own world
'Cause when you sleep at night
They don't hear your cries in your own world
Only time will tell
If you can break the spell back in your own world
(Stay) Stay with me
(Stay) Stay with me
(Stay) Stay, stay with me, ah-ha
(Stay) Stay, stay, stay, stay, stay
(Stay) Stay with me
Lyrics submitted by jimmyjango2000
Stay Lyrics as written by Marcella Levy Siobhan Maire Deirdre Fahey
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, O/B/O DistroKid, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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^^ Anger management, love. You don't own any song. Get over yourself. Oh yeah, and the band spell it Shakespear's Sister. Try getting the name right and grow up. Silly ignorant little child. Anyway, i just love how the video is so symbolic. Particularly about how the chick at the end is emblematic of death. She's all sparkly and glittery and at the same time, very evil-looking in a cool kind of way! I think the two women fighting over the dying bloke in the video represent good and evil. Death and life. And in the end, life and good wins. And the bloke wakes up and all is well. I love the video perhaps more than the song but that said, i love the song. Very cool.
@Lici It's The Morrigan(Siobhan Fahey)of Irish mythology, beautiful and bad, she takes dead/dying men to the other world for her sexual use. Siobhan is Irish and comes from the mystical county of Meath so must know what she's doing. A legend only five thousand years old!