Lyrics to
Don’t You Want To Stay?

This version of Don’T You Want To Stay? was released by Bill Withers in 1975.

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Busy hanging curtains
Children in the way
Woh! That’s what the future holds with me
Don’t you want to stay?

Better talk to Billy
His doggie died today
Woh! That’s what the future holds with me
Don’t you want to stay?

Don’t you want to stay?
Woh! Don’t you want to stay?
That’s what the future holds with me
Don’t you want to stay?

Sundays in the meadow
see the children play
Woh! That’s what the future holds with me
Don’t you want to stay?

Don’t you want to stay?
Woh! Don’t you want to stay?
That’s what the future holds with me
Don’t you want to stay?

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About Lyrics and Don’T You Want To Stay? by Bill Withers

When you decide to study the lyrics to Don’T You Want To Stay?, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1975 song by Bill Withers. Some of the lyrics to Don’T You Want To Stay? have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Bill Withers and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Don’T You Want To Stay? if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Don’T You Want To Stay?" means the words set to the music of Don’T You Want To Stay?, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bill Withers. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Don’T You Want To Stay? and the lyrics to Don’T You Want To Stay? are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bill Withers who came here looking just for the lyrics to Don’T You Want To Stay?, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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