Today’s song is “Stay,” the lead hit single from the British R&B group Eternal. 

The 1986 single by Glen Jones gained popularity in the US. It reached # 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Three years later, the girl group added “Stay” to their 1993 album, Always & Forever. 

Song Facts: 

• The masterpiece by Mark Stevens and Bob Khozouri was Eternal’s lead single and debut song. The Eternal version is a simple love song with sweet lead vocals, a sing-along chorus, and backing harmonies.
• Eternal released “Stay” three years after Glen Jones recorded the original song in 1986.
• “Stay” is Eternal’s lead single for their 1993 debut album, Always & Forever.
• The song reached the #16 spot on the UK Singles Chart.
• It was among 20 songs in the 1993 US Billboard Hot 100. “Stay” peaked at numbers 19 and 5 in this chart. It became the group’s only single to chart that high on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
• Eternal sold over 220,000 copies of the song in the United States market in 1994.
• On June 11, 1995, the song peaked at number one on the UK Singles Chart.
• “Stay” music video gained popularity in the US in 1994. It features choreographed dance moves by the Eternal group girls. The video dominated BET’ Video Soul on the American cable network.

Lyrics 

Stay

Stay

Stay

Stay

Stay baby

(Stay) come on darling now

(Stay)you know I want you back

(Stay with me tonight)

Come on won’t you stay

(Stay, oh)

(Stay)

(Stay with me)

Seems I have the strangest dream

I’m dreaming that you are gonna leave me

I wake up and I find it’s true

What will I do without you?

I don’t know, I don’t know

Just what it takes to get to you

I don’t know, I don’t know

Baby I’ll be true if only you could

even though I made you cry

Baby don’t you say goodbye

(Stay) Baby look me in my eye

(Stay with me tonight)

Come on baby

Even though I made you cry

(Stay) Baby don’t you say goodbye

(Stay) Won’t you stay

(Stay with me)

They say that love will come and go

But your love’s indispensable to me

I really want to be with you

What are we gonna do boy

I don’t know, I don’t know

Just what it takes to get to you

I don’t know, I don’t know

Baby I’ll be true if only you would

even though I make you cry

(Stay) Baby don’t you say goodbye

(Stay) Baby look me in my eye

(Stay with me tonight)

Even though I told you lies

(Stay)

Baby give me one more try

(Stay)

(Stay with me)

Come on baby

Won’t you, won’t you

Why don’t you stay?

Why don’t you stay?

(Stay, stay)

Come on, come on, come on and stay

Come on, come on, come on and stay

(Stay with me tonight)

Oh, oh, oh

I want you to stay

(Stay, stay) even though I made you cry

(Stay, stay)Baby don’t you say goodbye

(Stay with me tonight)

Come on baby

(Stay)Make you cry

(Stay) You don’t have to say goodbye

Even though I make you cry (stay)

You don’t have to say goodbye (stay)