Painful song..Sugarland "Stay"

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Painful song..Sugarland "Stay"
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Wed, 03-10-2010 - 1:36pm

Im not sure if anyone here is familiar with the Sugarland song "Stay" but it is about an affair with a MM. This song used to be so painful for me to think about or listen to. However, now that the fog is slowly lifting, Im relating more to the ending of this song.


I will paste the lyrics and the begining is definately full of pain and sorrow but in the end, she rises above, she gets her self respect back. I feel that I am getting mine back as well and no longer will I feel the way that I did. No longer will I beg him to leave her arms for mine, he can STAY right where he is because I deserve so much better.


This is so painful for me but here are the lyrics, just remember we are all up off our knees now, we are no longer begging, we dont have to live this way. He can just STAY!!!!


Love to all.


GMLB


"Stay"

I've been sitting here staring at the clock on the wall
And I've been laying here praying, praying she won't call
It's just another call from home
And you'll get it and be gone
And I'll be crying

And I'll be begging you, baby
Beg you not to leave
But I'll be left here waiting
With my Heart on my sleeve
Oh, for the next time we'll be here
Seems like a million years
And I think I'm dying

What do I have to do to make you see
She can't love you like me?

Why don't you stay
I'm down on my knees
I'm so tired of being lonely
Don't I give you what you need
When she calls you to go
There is one thing you should know
We don't have to live this way
Baby, why don't you stay

You keep telling me, baby
There will come a time
When you will leave her arms
And forever be in mine
But I don't think that's the truth
And I don't like being used and I'm tired of waiting
It's too much pain to have to bear
To love a man you have to share

Why don't you stay
I'm down on my knees
I'm so tired of being lonely
Don't I give you what you need
When she calls you to go
There is one thing you should know
We don't have to live this way
Baby, why don't you stay

I can't take it any longer
But my will is getting stronger
And I think I know just what I have to do
I can't waste another minute
After all that I've put in it
I've given you my best
Why does she get the best of you
So next time you find you wanna leave her bed for mine

Why don't you stay
I'm up off my knees
I'm so tired of being lonely
You can't give me what I need
When she begs you not to go
There is one thing you should know
I don't have to live this way
Baby, why don't you stay, yeah

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Wed, 03-10-2010 - 1:50pm
OMG that song used to hurt like hell I would shut it off. We she sang that song and you could see the pain in her tears, I was feeling the same way she was. Not anymore I am never going to degrade myself and ask hiim to be with me, or even worse let him in when it is convient for him. I have to say that song was a heartbreaker, not now I just feel indifferent to it when I hear it.
Loveless
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Registered: 12-07-2009
Wed, 03-10-2010 - 2:23pm
OMG, I love that song!! It is (was!!) heart-wrenching to hear. But she got it right in the end, didn't she?
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Registered: 10-21-2009
Wed, 03-10-2010 - 2:34pm

Come on ladies, no wallowing in self-pity allowed:) It's pathetic and desperate. Beg on your knees for him to leave someone else's bed for yours, eew! I personally like Gloria Gaynor much better: "Go now, go...walk through the door..." and so on:)

XOXO
Gone

**Bloodied but unbowed**
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Registered: 12-07-2009
Wed, 03-10-2010 - 2:38pm
End the end, she's not asking him to stay with her. She says she's grown stronger and that she's tired of it all and why don't he just stay where he is. At least that's how I interpret it.
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Registered: 11-04-2009
Wed, 03-10-2010 - 2:42pm

Gone,


No self pity here.


My purpose for the post was to bring up the transition from what we were to what we have become. During the A, we were all caught up in XMM, wanting him to "stay".

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Registered: 08-27-2008
Wed, 03-10-2010 - 4:28pm

The last time I saw XAP I had this song playing as he walked out the door. Still stings, but so much of it is true...esp 'you cant give me what I need'. That lyric alone gives me strength in my weak moments because I know he cant.

BTW, I love sugarland!!!