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I Want You To Stay Lyrics
I rewrite my life beneath the moonlight,
Please hold me now till my breath runs out,
There are many things that I am not,
But there's one thing that I cant deny
A double bluff you fed me lines,
The shortest cut you're searching for,
A mesh of tones surround your eyes,
I wish I knew how it came to this
I always said you could rely on me,
Now it seems that I was wrong,
I want you to stay,
I want you to stay with me
Cos nothing works round here,
Where cranes collect the sky,
I long for the neon signs of night,
Cos nothing works round here,
You know the way I feel,
Can you remember what we had?
Why do you think I over take?
I speak to you and you say no,
A camera runs just to collect,
I wish I knew how it came to this
The lies we tell are bound on film,
And you start to push your lips to mine,
Outside my room you closed your eyes,
And in the end it came to this
I always said you could rely on me,
Now it seems that I was wrong,
I want you to stay,
I want you to stay with me
Cos nothing works round here,
Where cranes collect the sky,
I think of your face at night,
Cos nothing works round here
You know the way I feel
Can you remember what we had?
As time gets more compressed,
You're always my reminder,
A lifetime disappears,
Can you remember what we had?
As time gets more compressed,
You're always my reminder,
You're always my reminder
You know the way I feel,
You know the way I feel
Please hold me now till my breath runs out,
There are many things that I am not,
But there's one thing that I cant deny
The shortest cut you're searching for,
A mesh of tones surround your eyes,
I wish I knew how it came to this
Now it seems that I was wrong,
I want you to stay,
I want you to stay with me
Where cranes collect the sky,
I long for the neon signs of night,
Cos nothing works round here,
You know the way I feel,
Can you remember what we had?
I speak to you and you say no,
A camera runs just to collect,
I wish I knew how it came to this
And you start to push your lips to mine,
Outside my room you closed your eyes,
And in the end it came to this
Now it seems that I was wrong,
I want you to stay,
I want you to stay with me
Where cranes collect the sky,
I think of your face at night,
Cos nothing works round here
Can you remember what we had?
As time gets more compressed,
You're always my reminder,
A lifetime disappears,
Can you remember what we had?
As time gets more compressed,
You're always my reminder,
You're always my reminder
You know the way I feel
Song Info
Submitted by
dulcitablue On Dec 28, 2005
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Beautiful song. I guess it's about a girl breaking up with a boy who's still in love with her and doesn't want it to be over. They've really put a lot of effort in describing the setting of the situation. Clearly the city at night, a desolated place near a building site, with CCTV camera's filming the breakup, just to picture what a crappy place it is for a breakup.
Cos nothing works round here/where cranes collect the sky/I long for the neon sings of night/cos nothing works round here
Can you spell F A B U L O U S ???
Why yes, I can spell fabulous. This is a beautiful song. I don't understand "A mesh of tones surround your eyes" though. It always made me think she just wore dark makeup to conceal her emotions but it seems stupid now..
My favourite Maximo Park song. The melancholy of it is really beautiful. It's what they do best.
i agree with everyone else. a beautiful song.
I think by 'a mesh of tones' he means a bunch of different emotions are in her expression, so he can't quite pick out what specificlly she's feeling.. but yeah, an amazing song, goes without saying. I was so glad when they released it as a single. Although radio edits are evil.
One of the best songs on the album, though they're all great. I always heard "mesh of tones" like mesh of /thorns/, as if they're lost in a bramble of emotions, scared to move in case it hurts. "I speak to you and you don't say no" I felt it was about a relationship that's broken down, gone bitter, and he's trying to get it back together "can you remember what we had?...you know the way I feel" because they do still love each other underneath - when " you start to push your lips to mine... it came to this" they fall back into it all over again, so as to stop being angry about the lies... It really is an amazing song, though.
BEAUTiFul!!!
I thought it was 'Where cranes connect the sky', as in a visual metaphor for the graphic lines of the cranes which interlock to create a network across the skies of the North East. Anyone else?
i think that the songs our velocity, the books from boxes and a i want you to stay is a some kind of triology. They are about a long distance relationship where the sky is only thing that connects them. She is his light in the night sky. She cant stay with him they have their own lifes and their realtionship is impossible.