Lyrics to
Stay With Me

This version of Stay With Me was released by Bette Midler in 1979.

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Where did you go when things went wrong, baby?
Who did you run to?
Find a shoulder to lay your head upon.
Baby, wasn’t I there?
Didn’t I take good care of you?
But, oh, no. I can’t believe you’re leaving me, yeah.

Stay with me, baby.
I’m beggin’ you to stay with me, baby.
Yeah, stay with me, baby.
I can’t go on.

Who did you touch when you needed tenderness, baby?
I gave you so much,
and in return I found happiness.
Baby, what could I do?
Maybe I was too good, too good to you.
Ohh, no, I can’t believe you’re leavin’ me.
Oh, oh, oh.

Oh, stay with me, baby.
Why don’t you, why don’t you just stay with me, baby?
Yeah, stay with me, baby.
Remember, you said you always gonna love me.
Remember, you said you’d never ever leave me.
Remember, remember, I’m asking you, begging you.
Oh, oh, oh.

Oh, stay with me, baby, baby, baby.
Why don’t you stay with me, baby?
Stay with me, baby.
I can’t, I can’t go, oh, on.

“Well, I’m a young woman, and I could get plenty of men.
But honey, keepin’ ’em’s the hard part, ain’t it?
Yeah. Sometimes, sometimes I find I try so hard.”

Maybe this time I should be the one to go away.
‘Cause honey, ain’t it my turn to have somebody
grab hold of me and say,
“No! Don’t go! You can’t go!”

Oh! Stay, stay with me, baby.
I’m begging you, stay with me.
Stay with me, baby.
I can’t, I can’t, I can’t, I can’t.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, stay with me, baby.
Why don’t you stay with me, baby?
Stay with me, baby.
I can’t, I can’t go on.

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About Lyrics and Stay With Me by Bette Midler

The lyrics to Stay With Me are the words, verses and chorus for the song released by Bette Midler in 1979. Elements of the lyrics to Stay With Me are both direct in meaning and also metaphorical with the real meanings of the song only known by Bette Midler and any collaborating writers working on the lyrics for Stay With Me back when it was created.

Some people have an interest in the etymology behind words and phrases. You can take apart the lyrics to Stay With Me by Bette Midler in a number of ways. 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 Stay With Me" means the words set to the music of Stay With Me, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Bette Midler. 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 Stay With Me and the lyrics to Stay With Me are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Bette Midler who came here looking just for the lyrics to Stay With Me, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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