This is a hauntingly beautiful song about introspection, specifically about looking back at a relationship that started bad and ended so poorly, that the narrator wants to go back to the very beginning and tell himself to not even travel down that road. I believe that the relationship started poorly because of the lines:
"Take me back to the night we met:When the night was full of terrors: And your eyes were filled with tears: When you had not touched me yet"
So, the first night was not a great start, but the narrator pursued the relationship and eventually both overcame the rough start to fall in love with each other:
"I had all and then most of you"
Like many relationships that turn sour, it was not a quick decline, but a gradual one where the narrator and their partner fall out of love and gradually grow apart
"Some and now none of you"
Losing someone who was once everything in your world, who you could confide in, tell your secrets to, share all the most intimate parts of your life, to being strangers with that person is probably one of the most painful experiences a person can go through. So Painful, the narrator wants to go back in time and tell himself to not even pursue the relationship.
This was the perfect song for "13 Reasons Why"
Sick of this mind and the games it plays
Mental enemieememieenemies want to push me back again
Here they come running wanting me up on that
Tree, crucified
(wait a minute)
Whatever words they say (me who said it)
Whomever they betray (me who did it)
Whenever they're awake it makes me die
There's so much on my mind, we're given so little time
There's no way to hold on as it passes by
So lead me into denial, help me forget for awhile
Stay with me, please please don't go
Stay with me, please don't go
I don't want to be alone
Stay with me, please
Sick of this mind and the games it plays
Mental enemieenemieenemies want to push me back again
Here they come running wanting me up on that
Tree, crucified
(wait a minute)
Whatever words they say (me who said it)
Whomever they betray (me who did it)
Whenever they're awake it makes me die
There's so much on my mind, we're given so little time
There's no way to hold on as it passes by
So lead me into denial, help me forget for awhile
Stay with me, please please don't go
Stay with me, please don't go
I don't want to be alone
Stay with me, please
I don't have much else to say (unlikely)
I'd rather you go away (unlikely)
I don't need something from you (unlikely)
Though some say I will heal over time
It doesn't seem too likely
It seems unlikely
Please, please don't go
Stay with me, please don't go
I don't want to be alone
Stay with me, please don't go
Stay with me, please
Mental enemieememieenemies want to push me back again
Here they come running wanting me up on that
Tree, crucified
(wait a minute)
Whatever words they say (me who said it)
Whomever they betray (me who did it)
Whenever they're awake it makes me die
There's so much on my mind, we're given so little time
There's no way to hold on as it passes by
So lead me into denial, help me forget for awhile
Stay with me, please please don't go
Stay with me, please don't go
I don't want to be alone
Stay with me, please
Sick of this mind and the games it plays
Mental enemieenemieenemies want to push me back again
Here they come running wanting me up on that
Tree, crucified
(wait a minute)
Whatever words they say (me who said it)
Whomever they betray (me who did it)
Whenever they're awake it makes me die
There's so much on my mind, we're given so little time
There's no way to hold on as it passes by
So lead me into denial, help me forget for awhile
Stay with me, please please don't go
Stay with me, please don't go
I don't want to be alone
Stay with me, please
I don't have much else to say (unlikely)
I'd rather you go away (unlikely)
I don't need something from you (unlikely)
Though some say I will heal over time
It doesn't seem too likely
It seems unlikely
Please, please don't go
Stay with me, please don't go
I don't want to be alone
Stay with me, please don't go
Stay with me, please
Lyrics submitted by jt, edited by XxXilenaXxX
Stay With Me Lyrics as written by Quincy D Jones Peggy Lee
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Sentric Music, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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