Sam Smith: Stay With Me Meaning
Song Released: 2014
Stay With Me Lyrics
Guess it's true, I'm not good at a one-night stand
But I still need love cause I'm just a man
These nights never seem to go to plan
I don't want you to leave, will you hold my hand?
[Chorus:]
Oh, won't you stay with me?
Cause...
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to me he is wanting the one night stand to go farther. he doesnt want this person to leave and wants this person to be there every step of the way.
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For me the song is about a person who uses one night stand to cover up for the loneliness he is feeling. However, at the end of the day he knows what he really longs for... companionship, love and support...
"This ain't love its clear to see" - a phrase used to hide what he longs for - LOVE. Because still, he is afraid of opening up for everything he is and everything he feels.
It's about a person who wants people to know that he needs Love but afraid to open everything about him because he is afraid of getting hurt too. -
I saw Sam Smith on a TV program and he said that Stay With Me was about a man he loved who was married and didn't return his love.
Unrequited love. Painful. -
In this song, I dont feel like he is singing about a lost love, rather an addiction of some sort.
Verse 1
Guess it's true, I'm not good at a one-night stand
But I still need love 'cause I'm just a man
These nights never seem to go to plan
I don't want you to leave, will you hold my hand?
- The one night stand portrays an addiction of some sort. This "love" he needs could come from various sources, man, woman, drugs, alcohol. He cant leave the addiction, he doesnt want it to go away or leave.
Verse 2
Why am I so emotional?
No, it's not a good look, gain some self-control
And deep down I know this never works
But you can lay with me so it doesn't hurt
- Addiction causes emotions and usually no self control. (the mind is powerful in many ways) Whatever the addiction is, he doesnt want it to leave, it needs to stay by his side. Cant control it. -
Right now the song means a lot to me. I feel it is about a relationship that just didn't work, they weren't in love. But he doesn't want to girl to leave because he isn't ready to be alone. So until he finds someone who he truly is in love with, he wants the girl to stay around to fill that empty void.
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It's about falling in love with your one night stands over and over again
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It's about someone who denies he is in love, but really is. It's about not wanting to commit.
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Viewed the summary of your views for this song and your current partner. Seems you really know him. How can your current guy have his dreams of finding an amazing wife and start a family if he is scared to love? if he is scared to try to have a loving relationship? if he is scared to be hurt? when his behaviors and actions are the opposite? Wants to experience being loved by a lot of women physically and emotionally? Do you think this is the right way for him to have his dreams fulfilled? Seems you guys are afraid because both of you have been abandoned. I guess your previous partners went away because they had their reasons. Contemplate the reasons why they went away. An individual will not go away if there was no reason. As the saying goes, there is one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
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This ain't love, it's clear to see. I've been listening to this song lately, because like some other commenters it describes my current sex partner. My man is most definitely narcisstic and broken by a lifetime of being abandoned. He feels lonely but almost never admits it for fear of appearing weak. He loudly brags about how easy getting a one-night stand would be for him but yet his actual behavior is to be with one woman only for months. But he refuses to be romantic or otherwise soft/compassionate and asks us women (me at the moment) to please not develop feelings for him. ..but to still hold him and love him. He talks about dreams of finding an amazing wife and starting a family, but is too scared of being hurt to actually put his heart out on the market. He acts disrespectful, especially in public, but the minute you try to walk away from contact he breaks down in deep remorse for his actions. It's sad because I enjoy his company, there is friendship outside of the sex, and yet I know I should keep on walking away to be done with such disrespect. I love him as a friend but have been trying to protect my heart from feeling more. But I don't want to be alone at the moment either. I, too, feel broken by a steady string of abandonment.
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He is looking for a guy . It's hard to find a good gay guy. He want him to stay with him.
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I feel that this song is about a man looking for someone to fill an emptiness that he feels. He is asking his one night stand to stay with him because he is tired of being alone and wants them to fill that void, as fleeting as that contact may be. He is longing for someone, anyone to remain by his side so that he will not need to face the reality of his loneliness.
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This song's meaning is very transparent. The guy denies that it is not love. He needs the girl's love. He wants her to stay because he loves her. Why would a guy want a girl to be by his side if it's not love? He is afraid to have an exclusive relationship with the girl because he is not ready for this kind of major commitment. He is afraid that if they try to be a couple, it will not last and it will only break his heart and the girl's heart. He is afraid to get hurt. But being hurt is part of being in love. So he is content with having the girl by her side. The girl makes him feel loved.
To AQUAGIRL 18,
It seems you are madly in love with him. Unfortunately, he is not ready to commit. It's up to you if you want to have this kind of physical relationship with him.
Hope you guys have a heart to heart talk.
The disadvantages of this kind of physical relationship without commitment, if it ends it will break both of your minds, hearts, and souls. Because even if you tell yourselves that you don't have a commitment with each other but this physical relationship has been on going for months, your minds, bodies, and souls had become one from the start.
Hopefully, all things will work out between you guys. It's right to use our hearts but it is also wise to use our minds. -
This is my situation right now. A one night stand that turned into 14 months. He needs me more than he realizes. We have walked away so many times but he comes back.
I agree with the above post about a narcissist. I feel he is and that's why he comes back. Things are cloudy right now as I am trying to walk. As soon as I say I am done he freaks...yet he won't commit. I am ready to give him love have been for a while. He doesn't want to accept it. Sad -
This is my situation right now. We had a one night stand...that turned into 14 months. Things are cloudy right now. I think he truly needs love and does love me. His fears are overwhelming him. I agree with the earlier post about a narcissist.
He won't commit but he won't let me go. He needs me more than he realizes just too stubborn to admit it. I have tried to walk but he chases me. -
This song is about a man who had a one night stand,but he came to realize that he got too involved and ended up having feelings for this girl,maybe because he was lonely and being with her fullfilled the emptiness in his soul,maybe he just wanted someone to call ''mine'' and didn't know.
He's aware of her intentions,he knows she doesnt feel the same,but he doesnt care ,because he needs her ,it doesnt matter if she doesnt love him back ,he just doesnt want her to leave.It may sound really needy,but I think that whatloves is about,it's about being vunerable,and even putting down your guards and show your biggests insecurities.Anyways, I can totally relate to this song,the meaning can be really subjective,but I can feel he's a broken soul,just like me.
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