Lisa Loeb – Stay
Capo 6th 160 bpm 4/4 [Reality Bites 1994]
Intro
G Em Am G/B C C
Prelude
G G Em Em Am G/B C C
You say… I only hear what I want to…
G G Em Em Am G/B C C
and you say… I talk so all the time… so…
Verse 1
Am G
and I thought what I felt was simple…
Am G
and I thought that I don't belong…
Am G
and now that I am leaving…
Am G
now I know that I did something wrong…
Refrain
C C Cm Cm
‘cause I missed you… Yeah-hhh…
Am.. g G Am.. g G
I missed you…
Bridge
G G Em Em
and you say… I only hear what I want to…
Am G/B
I don't listen hard… I don't pay attention to the
C G
distance that you're running or to anyone anywhere…
Am G/B
I don't understand if you really care…
C C C C
I'm only hearing negative… no… no… no… bad-ddd… So…
Verse 2
Am G
I turned the radio on… I turned the radio
Am G
up and this woman was singing my song…
Am G
The lover's in love and the other's run away…
Am G
The lover is crying ‘cause the other won't stay…
Verse 3
Am G
Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was
Am G
dying since the day they were born… well… well…
Am G
this is not that… I think that I'm throwing
Am G
but I'm thrown…
Chorus 1
Am Am
and I thought I'd live forever but now I'm not so sure…
C C
You try to tell me that I'm clever but that won't take me
Am G/B C C
anyhow… or anywhere… with you…
Verse 4
Am G
and you said that I was naïve…
Am G
and I thought that I was strong… oh…
Am G
I thought "Hey I can leave… I can leave…"
Am G
Oh… but now I know that I was wrong…
Refrain
C C Cm Cm
‘cause I missed you… Yeah-hhh…
Am.. g G Am.. g G
I missed you…
Chorus 2
Am
You said you caught me ‘cause you want me
Am
and one day you'll let me go…
C
You try to give away a keeper or
C
keep me ‘cause you know you're just so…
Am G/B C C
scared to lose-eee…
Outro
G G Em Em Am G/B C C
and you say… stay…
G G Em Em Am G/B C * C
and you say… I only hear what I want to…