Album: Meteora (2003)

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• Sometimes I need to remember just to breathe
  Sometimes I need you to stay away from me
  Sometimes I'm in disbelief, I didn't know
  Somehow I need you to go
  
  Don't stay
  Forget our memories
  Forget our possibilities
  What you were changing me into
  (Just give me myself back and)
  Don't stay
  Forget our memories
  Forget our possibilities
  Take all your faithlessness with you
  (Just give me myself back and)
  Don't stay
  
  Sometimes I feel like I trusted you too well
  Sometimes I just feel like screaming at myself
  Sometimes I'm in disbelief, I didn't know
  Somehow I need to be alone
  
  Don't stay
  Forget our memories
  Forget our possibilities
  What you were changing me into
  (Just give me myself back and)
  Don't stay
  Forget our memories
  Forget our possibilities
  Take all your faithlessness with you
  (Just give me myself back and)
  Don't stay
  
  I don't need you anymore, don't want to be ignored
  I don't need one more day, of you wasting me away
  I don't need you anymore, I don't want to be ignored
  I don't need one more day, of you wasting me away
  (With no apologies)
  
  Don't stay
  Forget our memories
  Forget our possibilities
  What you were changing me into
  (Just give me myself back and)
  Don't stay
  Forget our memories
  Forget our possibilities
  Take all your faithlessness with you
  (Just give me myself back and)
  Don't stay
  Don't stay
  Don't stay Writer/s: Brad Delson, Chester Charles Bennington, Dave Farrell, Joseph Hahn, Mike Shinoda, Robert G. Bourdon
  Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 13

• Luna Loud from Royal Woods, MichiganOk, to clear a few things up about the tunings: On this album and Hybrid Theory, Brad and Mike mostly tuned to drop-Db. The exceptions are: "With You" and "Runaway" (Standard tuned 7-string guitars, BEADGBE), "Don't Stay" (Drop-B, BF#BD#G#C#), "Somewhere I Belong" and "Easier To Run" (Standard Bb/A#, A#D#G#C#F#A#). After Meteora, the band mostly played in drop-D, and more rarely, standard E.
  
  Hope that cleared things up.
• Emo_boi from CowpensDaMn
• Zero from Nowhere, NjDude from Texas, on 2 songs from Hybrid Theory (With You and Runaway) Brad does use a 7 string, not entirely sure exactly what tunings those songs are in, as I don't make a habit of playing along to LP songs to learn them. To my knowledge, those are the only songs he uses a 7-string on.
• Thomas from Surabaya, IndonesiaEaster Egg: for anyone who has a sound-editing software like Adobe Audition or Sony Sound Forge, amplify the last 5 seconds near the end of this song by 6 dB, then you'll hear strange tones like telephone answering machine. The tones then continued on Somewhere I Belong, maybe Mike Shinoda wanted to make a transition effect between their songs, instead of just silence.
• Esther from Sauwerd, NetherlandsIt's great. But I think the text could be better, if you wrote it with teh meaning of a battle, you want a person close to you, and gone from you, you could express that better and not lean into one side. And, as allways, I miss the drumms a little... Fantastic that even this doesn't bring the song down, it's amazing.
• Drake from Cincinnati, OhI'm sorry, but I find "Sometimes I...just feel like SCREAMING AT MYSELF!" to be laughable. It's a laughable attempt at being hardcore.
• Caroline from Katy, TxI love this song, so many people to tell it to.... Meteora is better than Hybrid Theory.
• Amey from Zion, IlI thought it was for someone that was betrayed by their BF/GF, and they still like the person, but at other times they just want them to get away and forget everything. They just want to drop it all and leave them, and nothing more. Besides the awesome sound, this is the second track on the Meteora CD.
• Kayla from Rancho Cucamonga, Cawow this song brings back memories because, as said before, linkin park plays "don't stay" first thing when they do a concert and it reminds me of the feeling when i saw LP play live for the first time (projekt revolution '04). the song began to play and right as LP began to get really into song, the Linkin Park curtain tht was blocking evry1s view fromt he stage dropped and there they were. the 6 guys who have changed my life. that was the best feeling ever and the most exciting and emotional experience (the concert as a whole) of my life. since tht day i have been fortunate enough to see LP again and to meet them twice. they are really humble and sweet guys. this is one of the happier (in a way) and more sentimental LP songs for me.
• Dude from Tx, TxI don't know why everyone likes to downtune guitars. I always thought Delson played a baritone with a low B-string.
• Rebecca from Peoria, Az this song is like so cool its like saying like u want someone to leave u a lone and i need them to stay like "Sometimes I
  Need to remember just to breathe
  Sometimes I
  Need you to stay away from me
  Sometimes I'm
  In disbelief I didn't know
  Somehow I
  Need you to go" this is like saying go away i don't u anymore but yea very good song
• Rob from Castaic, Cafor some reason i dont like dont stay as much as all their other stuff. Maybe its because it sounds really poppish coming after the foreward on Meteora.
• Anonymousthis song is the best i love it i some times sing to it!its wonderful heavy on rock and i likem to be to heavy heavy its just a great song like if you got your heart broken it just a great song for that also.

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