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"
I found my fickle friend
Out in the alley way
He said, You don't look so good
I said, Hey doc, that's great
You started practicing?
I never got the note
So let's shake and trade
And be on our way
So here we are again
Inside your neon shrine
Sharing a chopping block
Under embarrassed light
I tried to hide myself
I tuck myself away
And you both grab hold
Saying "No you don't"
The morning's hot and harsh
My notebook fills itself
The words come thick with sweat
But it feels like someone else
Is writing all of this
Someone I just can't believe
So I mop my brow
Set my pen back down
It's still me, still me
I'm grabbing at a feeling now
That I could never name
Some sign post to remind me
How I wanted things this way
She says you're pretty
But you hate yourself
I could hear it clear as day
I said, I sing like this
It sounds worse than it is
I'm okay, okay
I'm okay, okay
So just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Out in the alley way
He said, You don't look so good
I said, Hey doc, that's great
You started practicing?
I never got the note
So let's shake and trade
And be on our way
So here we are again
Inside your neon shrine
Sharing a chopping block
Under embarrassed light
I tried to hide myself
I tuck myself away
And you both grab hold
Saying "No you don't"
The morning's hot and harsh
My notebook fills itself
The words come thick with sweat
But it feels like someone else
Is writing all of this
Someone I just can't believe
So I mop my brow
Set my pen back down
It's still me, still me
I'm grabbing at a feeling now
That I could never name
Some sign post to remind me
How I wanted things this way
She says you're pretty
But you hate yourself
I could hear it clear as day
I said, I sing like this
It sounds worse than it is
I'm okay, okay
I'm okay, okay
So just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Just stay, just stay
Lyrics submitted by jesselacey, edited by ienjoycereal
Just Stay Lyrics as written by Kevin Patrick Devine
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
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the album version is:
"I found my fickle friend out in the alley way He said, You don't look so good. I said, Hey doc, that's great. You started practicing? I never got the note. So let's shake and trade and be on our way. Let's go, go, go.
So here we are again, inside your neon shrine, sharing a chopping block beneath embarassed light that tries to hide from us it tucks itself away. So we both grab hold and say no you don't. Just stay, just stay.
The morning's hot and harsh, my notebook fills itself. The words come thick with sweat, it feels like someone else is writing all of this, someone I just can't believe. when I mop my brow, set my pen back down, it's still me, still me.
And I'm grabbing at a feeling now that I can't ever name. Some sign post to remind me how I wanted things this way.
And she says, 'it's pretty but you hate yourself, I can hear it clear as day.' And I say, 'when i sing like this, it sounds worse than it is. I'm okay, okay. I'm okay, okay. Just stay, just stay.'
the first verse is a drug deal second verse they're doing the drugs the third is the next next day he feels beside himself and not himself as he writes of the past night(s) 4th verse he plays the song for a girl and she thinks hes depressed but really he wants his life that way
The "just stay just stay" in the first verse references to the feeling that he enjoys when he is on the drugs he bought (possibly coke because of the chopping block). Once the feeling fades he feels even better around the girl. He wants her to stay. Sadly, the feeling he gets around her may last just as short a time as the high he wanted to remain. Especially if she looks at him as hating himself...
i agree with both of you :)<br /> <br /> but to be more specific:<br /> <br /> <br /> first verse, he refers to his friend/dealer as being a doctor, which is ironic. he's being sarcastic by asking 'you started practicing? i never got the note' like, his dealer should be the last person to comment on his condition and the way he's living his life. but his friend supplies him with drugs, and then kevin self medicates with said drugs, trying to find something that will last and maybe balance his brain.<br /> <br /> <br /> So here we are again,<br /> inside your neon shrine, (neon shrine= tripping/rolling/drug room. usually painted with neon black light paint, black lights turned on. its like flying through space when you're high)<br /> sharing a chopping block (chopping block= where they prepare the drugs)<br /> beneath embarassed light<br /> that tries to hide from us<br /> it tucks itself away. (the day passed by quickly when they get fucked up, so maybe its talking about the sun being 'shy'?)<br /> So we both grab hold<br /> and say no you don't.<br /> (holding onto the 'light', and the feelings that the drugs give them)<br /> Just stay, just stay.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> the last verse is his female friend/girlfriend reading new lyrics he wrote, hence the "And she said, it's pretty, but you hate yourself, I can hear it clear as day."<br /> to which he reponds with "when i sing like this, it sounds worse than it is. I'm okay, okay"<br /> <br /> <br /> sounds to me like he doesn't know himself, he doesn't know how to be truly happy, so he's doing the only thing he knows how to do; chase temporary highs.