Stay single lyrics:

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Stay / Into the Door / On the Phone / The Guests

1. Stay [top]

you know you seen alright
you play the film just right
and every working day
the kind of bills i would pay
to keep you in my game
stay and write the film

the kind of ears we need
to hear them pull your teeth
and if they get their way
you'll never play again
so keep your voice til then
stay and write the film
stay and write the film

plagued by the throws of your deep-seeded woes
could you fend off ambassadors to keep them on their toes
play us your best reception yet
between your ears

roll out your television set
you've had for years

i know you're kind to me
the way your meters speak
the language no one hears
too bad it's all been wrong
there's nothing left you know
but to stay and write the film

plagued by the throws of your inverted woes
could we send off the carpenters to build what hasn't grown
meanwhile your aging motor's down
and it seems you're dead

so maybe you'd only like to write
the end instead

2. Into the Door [top]

change the locks
with your hands
change the locks around
tell us all
you've moved out
with the lock in hand

now confuse the issue more
into the door

bullets came
and i'll remain
shoot the lock
to get out

i'd never thought i'd see them shoot you in
the door you're in

hollowed out
let us out

now the car door is broken
now the car door is broken

now the car door is broken
now the car door is broken
now the car door is broken
now the car door is broken
now the car door is broken

3. On the Phone [top]

ocassionally i haven't seen
cars drive by
wondered why i haven't seen
cars go by

haven't seen a memory
too few faces
strange to me i haven't seen
many faces

use the phone
how long
reaching no one on the phone
seven day
trip away
hearing no one on the phone

4. The Guests [top]
(originally by Leonard Cohen)

one by one the guests arrive
the guests are coming through
the open hearted many
and i'm the broken hearted few

and no one knows where the night is going
and no one knows why the wine is flowing
and oh love
i need you i need you i need you i need you
oh i need you now

those who dance begin to dance
and those who weep begin
welcome welcome cries the voice
and all my guests come in

and no one knows where the night is going
and no one knows why the wine is flowing
and oh love
i need you i need you i need you i need you
oh i need you now

and i'll go stumbling through that house
in lonely secrecy
saying please reveal yourself
for why have you forsaken me

and no one knows where the night is going
and no one knows why the wine is flowing
and oh love
i need you i need you i need you i need you
oh i need you now

and no one knows where the night is going
and no one knows why the wine is flowing
and oh love
i need you i need you i need you i need you
oh i need you now