Say You Love Me (Please Stay)

from The Petty Narcissist by Jason Shand

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Ever get mixed signals from someone you are interested in? They would do or say things that were clearly more than platonic… but they wouldn’t follow through? This in essence is ‘Say You Love Me (Please Stay)’. So annoying and thankfully happily married now. I think I dodged a bullet. 😂

I wasn’t planning on doing this song at that day’s recording session. We had wrapped things up with the other tunes scheduled for that day and at that time, I wasn’t sure what direction I wanted this song to go in. We had time to kill in the studio so my amazing band learned this song on the fly in the studio. My acoustic player Sean gave everyone else the charts and what you’re hearing is a totally off the cuff performance from everyone including myself. The arrangement of the song figured itself out in real time. Maybe 3 or 4 takes? These guys that play for me are ridiculous.

lyrics

Always feel your presence
Under my skin
Even in your absence
Only you can fill
This void within

This void within my bleeding heart
It’s bleeding for you

I think that you want me
but you won’t release yourself
from this fear you hold onto
you’ve got to let go

Say you love me
Say you want me
And please stay
Please stay

Try to keep my distance
Cards close to
burning chest
I’m biding my time
I suffer through
this soul’s unrest

This soul’s unrest
May be my undoing
I am dying
to reveal myself

I’m standing here with an open heart
this is crazy
But I know nothing ventured
is nothing to gain

Say you love me
Say you want me
And please stay
Please stay

Now deep down
I know that you want me
Why don’t you release yourself
from this fear you hold onto
Just let it go

And say you love me
Say you want me
And please stay
Please stay

Say you love me
Say you want me
Say you want me
Say you love me
And please stay
Please stay

JS

credits

from The Petty Narcissist, released January 21, 2022
Drums - John Clancy
Bass - Dave Richards
Keys - John Roggie
Electric guitars - Ben Butler
Acoustic guitars - Sean Driscoll

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Jason Shand New York, New York

Jason Shand's goal with this 14-song collection was to make a substantive personal pop album that not only caters to this single-driven era, but also caters to the old school era of having a full length album where each song flows into the other, taking the listener on a sonic storytelling ride.

"With every song being a potential single, I'd like to think I succeeded. Can't wait to release it!"
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