Stay Lyrics
Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
It takes me all the way
I want you to stay
Want you to stay
[Post-Chorus]
Round and around and around and around we go
Oh, now tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know
[Verse]
Ooh, ooh, the reason I hold on
Ooh, ooh, 'cause I need this hole gone
Funny you're the broken one
But I'm the only one who needed saving
When you finally see the light
It's hard to know which one of us is caving
[Chorus]
Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
And it takes me all the way
I want you to stay
Want you to stay
Round and around and around and around we go
Oh, now tell me now, tell me now, tell me now you know
[Verse]
Ooh, ooh, the reason I hold on
Ooh, ooh, 'cause I need this hole gone
Funny you're the broken one
But I'm the only one who needed saving
When you finally see the light
It's hard to know which one of us is caving
[Chorus]
Not really sure how to feel about it
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you
And it takes me all the way
I want you to stay
Want you to stay
About
Cat Power’s new album Wanderer includes a very moody cover of Rihanna’s ballad “Stay.” In an interview with the New York Times she explained the cover’s unexpected origins. The story involves karaoke, an old lover, and a teary taxi ride:
“Stay” had stuck with her since she’d heard it years ago in someone’s car, she said. “An old lover, he was picking me up and he opened the door and that song was on the radio,” she recalled. “He said, ‘Oh, there’s my girl,’ and I thought he was talking about me, you know? Then the song ended and he turned off the radio, and I realized he was talking about Rihanna.”
A few years later, not long after the birth of her son, she heard it again in a taxi and cried the whole ride. That night, she had plans to meet a friend at a karaoke bar, and decided “Stay” would be the only song she performed.
She sang it 16 times.
Q&A
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The week before I recorded it, I heard [Rhianna’s version] in a cab in Miami. It punctured something in me, and I was able to feel her triumph. Rhianna possesses a struggle in her voice, and her she comes through shining with her closure.
Whenever I do a cover, there is an immediate impulse that is not being satiated. I just want to hear the song. I just started singing it without realizing it.“
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- 1.Wanderer
- 2.In Your Face
- 3.You Get
- 4.Woman
- 5.Horizon
- 6.Stay
- 7.Black
- 8.Robbin Hood
- 10.Me Voy
- 11.Wanderer/Exit