Stay (I Missed You)

I was in hiatus mode for the past two weeks that’s why I failed to update this blog with personal entries. But now I am back and I would like to start by sharing one of my favorite songs. Here’s my very first Music Monday entry for this month – a song by Lisa Loeb.

The song Stay (I Missed You) was ranked 93rd on VH1’s “100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s. Lisa Loeb’s Stay music video was directed by Ethan Hawke who passed the tape of this single along to Ben Stiller while he was making the film Reality Bites. The song was featured on the soundtrack for the movie.

Here’s Stay (I Missed You) Youtube video by Lisa Loeb

Lisa Loeb – Stay (I Missed You) Lyrics

You say, I only hear what I want to

And you say, I talk so all the time, so

And I thought what I felt was simple
And I thought that I don’t belong
And now that I am leavin’
Now I know that I did somethin’ wrong
‘Cause I missed you
Yeah yeah, I missed you

And you say, I only hear what I want to
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

So I, I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up
And this woman was singin’ my song
Lover’s in love and the other’s run away
Lover is cryin’, ’cause the other won’t stay

Some of us hover when we weepin’ for the other
Who was dying since the day they were born, well
Well, this is not that I think that I’m throwing
But I’m thrown

And I thought I’d live forever
But now I’m not so sure
You try to tell me that I’m clever
But that won’t take me anyhow
Or anywhere with you

And you said that I was naive
And I thought that I was stronger
I thought, hey I can leave, I can leave
Oh but now I know that I was wrong
‘Cause I missed you
Yeah, I missed you

You said, “You caught me
‘Cause you want me”
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

And you say, “Stay”

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