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Stayaway by MUNA

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MUNA

Stayaway

Release date: 5th September 2019

From Saves The World
Track 3
3:32
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"Stayaway" is a single by MUNA, from the album Saves The World, released 5th September 2019. The track is 3:32 long. It's filed under Alternative. Full lyrics are available below. Dork has published 20 articles about MUNA.

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Stayaway

If I see my old friends, we'll go out dancing
If we go out dancing, then we'll go to the bar
If we go to the bar, then there's gonna be drinking
If I drink, I wanna see where you are
So I don't see my old friends, I don't go dancing
I don't do most things I used to do
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it
I did most things to get to you

No one ever told me leaving was the easy part
I gotta stay away
Leaving you was easy, now I gotta do what's hard
I gotta stay away

Stay away, stay, stay away
Stay away, stay, stay away

If I go driving, then I'll put on music
If I put on music, then I'll play your song
If I play your song, then I think I'll lose it
End up pulled up at the front of your lawn
So I don't go driving, no, I just stay in
I don't do most things I used to do
'Cause every moment is a fork in the road
And all my roads lead back to you (You, you, you)

No one ever told me leaving was the easy part
I gotta stay away
Leaving you was easy, now I gotta do what's hard
I gotta stay away

Stay away, stay, stay away
Stay away, stay, stay away

If I turn off the light, then I might start thinking
If I start thinking, I'll think of the time when
You said that you loved me, you said I was perfect
You said you were sorry, you said you were selfish
If I don't stop it, before I know it
All the bad things never happened
You never lied or treated me bad and
If you did then you'll wish you hadn't
Start believing you were right and
I was being too dramatic
So I gotta leave the light on for tonight
Just so I can stay away

No one ever told me leaving was the easy part
I gotta stay away
Leaving you was easy, now I gotta do what's hard
I gotta stay away
Any little misstep, I'll be at your doorstep
Talking 'bout forgiveness, giving you my heart back
Just so you can break it one more time before I say
I gotta stay away

Stay away, stay, stay away
Stay away, stay, stay away
Stay away, stay away
Stay away, stay, stay away

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Track details

From Saves The World

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Saves The World
MUNA
5th September 2019
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3
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2019
  1. 1Grow
    1:47
  2. 2Number One Fan
    3:26
  3. 3Stayaway
    3:32
  4. 4Who
    3:08
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    Bass
    Brian Robert Jones
    Drums
    Scott Heiner
    Guitar
    Josette Maskin, Naomi McPherson
    Vocals
    Katie Gavin
    Background Vocals
    Josette Maskin, Katie Gavin, Naomi McPherson
    Mastering Engineer
    Ted Jensen
    Mixing Engineer
    Dan Grech-Marguerat
    Percussion
    Scott Heiner
    Programmer
    John Hill, Naomi McPherson
    Synthesizer
    Naomi McPherson
    Vocal Producer
    Rob Cohen
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