Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories
“Stay (I Missed You)” was Lisa Loeb’s first and breakthrough single. The song reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart in August 1994, making her the first unsigned artist to reach #1 .
According to The Billboard Book Of Number One Hits, the song was written after an argument with her boyfrie...
[Intro]
You say I only hear what I want to
You say I talk so all the time, so?
[Verse 1]
And I thought what I felt was simple
And I thought that I don't belong
And now that I am leaving
Now I know that I did something wrong
[Refrain]
'Cause I missed you
Yeah, yeah, I missed you
[Interlude]
And you say I only hear what I want to
[Verse 2]
I don't listen hard, don't pay attention
To the distance, that you're running to anyone, anywhere
I don't understand if you really care
I'm only hearing negative, no, no, no (Bad)
[Verse 3]
So I, I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up
And this woman was singing my song
Lovers in love and the others run away
Lover is crying 'cause the other won't stay
Some of us hover when we weep for the other
Who was dying since the day they were born, well
Well, this is not that
Think that I'm throwing, but I'm thrown
[Verse 4]
And I thought I'd live forever
But now I'm not so sure
You try to tell me that I'm clever
That won't take me anyhow or anywhere with you
[Verse 5]
You said that I was naive and
I thought that I was strong, oh
I thought, "Hey, I can leave, I can leave"
Oh, but now I know that I was wrong
[Refrain]
'Cause I missed you
Yeah, I missed you
[Verse 6]
You said you caught me 'cause you want me
And one day, you'll let me go
You try to give away a keeper
Or keep me 'cause you know you're just so scared to lose
[Outro]
And you say, "Stay"
And you say I only hear what I want to
Stay (I Missed You) was written by Lisa Loeb.
Stay (I Missed You) was produced by Juan Patiño & Lisa Loeb.
Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories released Stay (I Missed You) on Tue May 17 1994.
I was living in New York City, and I remember being in a studio on 52nd Street, which was actually an apartment on 52nd Street, between 9th and 10th. I was trying to think of a song for Daryl Hall, actually, from Hall and Oates, because somebody told me that he was looking for songs for his solo rec...
I was in Boston when I finished the song. I was going to Berkeley Music School, and I was trying to write all the lyrics. And there were a lot of lyrics. I knew I loved writing licks and singing over them. There’s a friend of mine in college named Dan Seidan—he was a musician, and he always had thes...
I did. I went to Jones Beach, and I saw Hall and Oates. I got to go backstage and meet Daryl Hall and meet John Oates. And when I met Daryl Hall, I said to him, “Oh my gosh! I’m so excited to meet you!” Because I had seen him a bunch of times before, and I was a big fan growing up. And I said to him...
I think I was really excited to have a song that was different from some of my other songs, that had a little bit more of a groove than some of my other songs had. My other songs had more sort of rock feel or sort of punky. Or just acoustic, singer/songwriter, strum strum thing. It was just a differ...
I love “Tainted Love.” The song “Tainted Love” is so emotional. Which is funny, because I think I was listening to it when I had never been in or out of love before. It’s just so dramatic. Sometimes if you haven’t had those feelings or experiences, sometimes listening to those songs can make you fee...
No, I definitely wasn’t trying to make a pop hit with this song. I will say as a songwriter in the early ‘90s, I’d been writing songs since I was 6 years old. And songs with lyrics since I was 13 or so. And I knew from an early age when you played people songs and they connected with them, there’s t...
If I were to sit down and try to write a hit song, I would probably try to write a catchy chorus and you know, just some really catchy parts and have things that you expect to happen next. At least at the time I was writing that song. “Stay” has no chorus. The structure is very unusual. It kind of u...
Ethan Hawke came up with the idea for the video. I went to his apartment on Waverly, which was across the street from my apartment. We were neighbors and friends. And he said, “I have this idea for the video for ‘Stay,’” and he pretended he had the camera, and he said, “You’re gonna be walking aroun...