Stay

This song is following me around. It's in my head, it's on the radio:

All along it was a fever
A cold sweat hot-headed believer
I threw my hands in the air and said, "Show me something,"
He said, "If you dare come a little closer."

Round and around and around and around we go
Oh now tell me now tell me now tell me now you know

Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay.

I'm not really sure how I feel about Rihanna as a lyricist -- I don't understand a bunch of the lyrics for this song, but I feel like she's on to something here:

It's not much of a life you're living
It's not just something you take – it's given

I think it all comes back to that one truth -- that we can't take what hasn't been given, though it wasn't for lack of trying:

Ooh the reason I hold on
Ooh cause I need this hole gone
Funny you're the broken one but I'm the only one who needed saving...

Yeah, part of my holding on was about wanting to fill a hole, but mostly, it was about being super into someone who was super into me and after more than two years together, coming up short:

Not really sure how to feel about it.
Something in the way you move
Makes me feel like I can't live without you.
It takes me all the way.
I want you to stay, stay.
I want you to stay, oh.

...because he wouldn't stay. So I'm going to have to find a way to live without him. Sigh. I may just start, as Rihanna does in the video (dang she's hot!), with sad soaks in the tub...