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Make Me Stay Lyrics
i'm gonna turn
and walk away
you can wait
till i am far along
then run and come
and catch my arm
and say you'd die
if i were gone
i want to hear you
call my name
it's too easy
just to say it soft
i don't like my language
watered down
i don't like my edges
rounded off
i can't always wait
for your circumstance to improve
love is loose it
shifts each time you move
go ahead, put my back
against the wall
give it all up
or don't give it to me at all
you never know this could be
our last night
so step back
step back into the light
so i can see your silhouette
i'm not done looking yet
save the profile for the camera
give me your eye to eye
i know all your secrets
and you know all of mine
mostly i don't go
for the soft focus and the fantasy
i need something real
i can think
and say and see so
i'm going to turn
and walk away
you wait till i am far along
then run and come
and catch my arm
and say you'd die
if i were gone
yes i'm going to turn
and walk away
you can watch me go
or you can make me stay
how much do i mean to you? am i just a fill in or would you really die if i was gone... i want to see your raw unmasked feelings when you are put in the situation of leaving me forever i dont want fakey
I think she wants a real, true, love. She's tired of "the soft focus & fantasy" & would like something a bit more demanding from a romance. If not that I think she's singing about being frusterated with a man, wanting him to challenge her or create some excitement in their love.
I'm just tired of feeling indispensable. I want to be loved and needed and told that I'm beautiful. I want you to miss me. If I left, would you try to catch me, or would you let me leave? "You can watch me go, or you can make me stay."
She's saying to her/him (it could easily be either, neither one is more likely), that she wants more than for them just to like her/love her/be with her.
She wants them to crave her, to NEED her. She wants to grab this thing they have together by the horns and run with it, not just leave it to meander along, as she says "love is loose it shifts each time you move" and "this could be our last night".
she wants something to 'think and say and see' she wants words backed up with actions. she wants them to need her. and she wants it to be exciting.
To me she is singing to a non-committal girl who she is trying to encourage to be real and invest some emotion into their relationship..