if you want me to stay song meaning
If You Want Me to Stay The lyrics of "If You Want Me to Stay" feature frontman Sly Stone informing his lover that she has to let him be himself, otherwise he feels that he would have to leave. The composition has its origins in an apology Stone wrote to his future wife, Kathleen Silva, after a fight.
Habits (Stay High) The song's lyrics delve into Lo's hedonistic attempts to forget her former boyfriend.[28][30][40][41] According to Markos Papadatos of Digital Journal, the narrator describes her attempts to overcome a failed relationship through binge eating and alcohol, as indicated in the lyrics about having the munchies, eating Twinkies, and throwing up during the first verse.[42] In the chorus, she sings about drug abuse: "You're gone and I gotta stay high / All the time, to keep you off my mind".[27] According to Adam R. Holz of Plugged In, in the bridge, Lo approaches the theme of "knowing—at some level—just how empty and self-obliterating her choices really are", as she talks about needing to take someone home in order to relieve her suffering.[27] The singer confessed to iHeart Radio that the song's bridge is her favorite part of the track because "that just says everything [that the] song is about for me".[43] However, Billboard's Jeremy D. Larson considered the song's message untrue because "staying high does not keep anyone off your mind".[44]