Linkin Park: Don't Stay Meaning

Don't Stay Lyrics

Sometimes I need to remember just to breathe
Sometimes I need you to stay away from me
Sometimes I’m in disbelief I didn’t know
Somehow I need you to go

[Chorus:]
Don’t stay
Forget our memories
Forget our possibilities
What you were changing me...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 6th 2017 !⃝

   It's really about anybody going through a crappy relationship and then everything has fallen apart. I myself just went through a nasty break up and fights following after the break up and being accused for something I didn't do... Yeah it's about the frustration and heartbreak, by wanting the old life back from a long painful relationship.
2. anonymous

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   Feb 16th 2016 !⃝

   It's a song about being smothered by your partner and sick of them being there after everything they've done to you, including cheating on you ("take all your faithlessness with you").
3. anonymous

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   Nov 5th 2014 !⃝

   I think it's about when someone hurts you, you're so angry and want them gone. You want to forget about them, and you want them to get out. I can relate, I had someone who hurt me badly and got rid of all of their pictures and stuff.
4. anonymous

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   Nov 24th 2013 !⃝

   i thkn its a fuckin break up
5. anonymous

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   Oct 24th 2012 !⃝

   I don't know i can see the whole break up thing , i know what it feels like. not long ago i had my heart riped out; so i can see a point of veiw from that. but i can also see a point of view from another angle , my friends have recently betryed me , lied to me and there hard to trust. i just want to forget and move on. so it has a double meaning for me

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
6. anonymous

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   Sep 14th 2012 !⃝

   I think this song is about how Chester (lead singer) is frustrated with his wife/girlfriend and wants her to get out.
7. derverzagt

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   Jun 12th 2012 !⃝

   okay, this song is about a heartbreak but it didn't sounds like someone who got dumped.
   
   it's obviously, about someone who changed 180 degrees because of going out with his gf/her bf..
   
   "Sometimes I need to remember just to breathe
   Sometimes I need you to stay away from me
   Sometimes Im in disbelief I didnt know
   Somehow I need you to go
   
   Dont stay forget our memories
   Forget our possibilities
   Take all your faithlessness with you
   Just give me myself back and dont stay
   
   Sometimes I feel like I trusted you too well
   Sometimes I just feel like screaming at myself
   Sometimes Im in disbelief I didnt know
   Somehow I need to be alone"
   
   see? narrator's lover just too overprotective and thought the world is just for the two of them, when the narrator also has his/her own world before.. the lover made the narrator to ignore/forsake what he/she had..
   
   you know, it feels like that you have a life, a very important life before, and someone come and then interfere, interrupt you and your life..
   
   let see the last verse :
   
   "I dont need you anymore I dont want to be ignored
   I dont need one more day of you wasting me away
   I dont need you anymore I dont want to be ignored
   I dont need one more day of you wasting me away
   (With no apologies)"
   
   Narrator doesn't want to be ignored by his/her friend (his/her world or even life) and he/she felt wasted all of this time.. the narrator just wants to go back to his/her early life where his/her life go back to normal...
   
   "i don't need you" is the strong phrase that made me realize who has the power, the narrator or his/her lover ?
   
   thanks for reading, hope you enjoy the song well :D
8. anonymous

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   Jul 29th 2011 !⃝

   Its about someone who got dumped by a girl and don't want her to stay anymore.

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