<Dd> - Lisa Loeb talking about the inspiration of "Stay (I Missed You)" </Dd> <P> Musically, "Stay" is a pop rock song with folk rock influence . Vocally, according to a publication, "The tonal shifts in the vocals also are quite affecting . Loeb rants and rails through much of the song with barely contained emotion only to pull back for some tenderness in the refrain . It's an outstanding performance of an enduring song ." The song is structured around a central passage of sonic catharsis . After the tentative opening, the pace and density of Loeb's roiling litany of self - recrimination increases; the personal pronouns pile up; the accents of the bass and backing voices grow unruly and insistent, like nagging, negative thoughts heaping on one another . </P> <P> According to Rhik Samadder, Loeb's guitar picks out a simple arpeggio as she admonishes: "You say I only hear what I want to," warning us that this may be the most self - involved song ever written . Almost every line contains a clutch of first person singulars: "I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was singing my song ." Based on the song's theme the break - up song is not about a relationship with a departed lover, but the relationship with ourselves (...) About accepting that our basic loneliness is unsophisticated and shared, and that we have to abandon the selfish dramas of our malaise to properly love . It's a point of emotional development (...)" Regarding the lyrical content, Loeb's explained; "" I turned the radio on, I turned the radio up, and this woman was singing my song," Lisa explains: "That was when you hear somebody telling your exact story . It's funny, because it wasn't until later, after a couple of major breakups, that I realized when you're depressed and you're going through these breakups, the breakup was supposed to happen . If you're going through difficult times, it's hilarious how you turn on the radio and even the most cliché things perfectly capture how you're feeling . And then you realize why people wrote those songs ." </P> <P> According to AmericanSongwriter.com, "Loeb's lyrics definitely capture the breathless way of expressing oneself that was common at the time . Considering all of the lines that start with "And," the song can seem like one big run - on sentence . Yet in the midst of all of the breathlessness, she focuses enough to spin out several couplets that really nail the topsy - turvy feeling that romantic mind games can play on you ." According to the publication, they said that the lyric "Some of us hover when we weep for the other who was / Dying since the day they were born / Well, this is not that / I think that I'm throwing, but I'm thrown ." was "poetic". </P>

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