Please Stay is a song about feeling almost helpless around someone you love. Lucy expresses that she wants this person to know how much they matter, that they need to keep living. She feels somewhat of a responsibility to make sure this person knows that living is enough, and emphasizes that she wou...
[Verse 1]
Your clothes in the dryer
Your hair on the shower wall
Your toothbrush is too much
Your shoes empty in the hall
Your keys on the counter
Your dirty dish in the sink
Please don't make me see these things
[Verse 2]
The books on your shelf that you never read
The hunting knife you kept by your bed
The flowers you dried and tied up with twine
Suspended from the ceiling
[Pre-Chorus]
You tell me you love me like it'll be thе last time
Like you're playing out thе end of a storyline
I say I love you too because it's true
What else am I supposed to do?
Maybe bar the door when you move to leave
[Chorus]
I think you mean what you say
When you say you wanna die
I think you mean what you say
When you say you want to stay alive
[Bridge]
Quit your job
Cut your hair
Get a dog
Change your name
Change your mind
Change your ways
Give them time
Go back to school, go back to sleep
Tell the secret you can't keep
Begin, be done
Break a vow, make a new one
Call me if you need a friend or never talk to me again
[Outro]
But please stay
But please stay
But please stay
But please stay
Please Stay was written by Lucy Dacus.
Please Stay was produced by Jake Finch & Collin Pastore & Jacob Blizard & Lucy Dacus.
Lucy Dacus released Please Stay on Fri Jun 25 2021.
I wrote it in September of 2019, after we recorded most of the record. I had been circling around this role that I have played throughout my life, where I am trying to convince somebody that I love very much that their life is worth living. The song is about me just feeling helpless but trying to do...