Video Stay With Me By Peter Cetera With Lyrics

Stay With Me By Peter Cetera

How can you say it's over
What can there be that we can't overcome
Why do you turn away
And you so afraid of needing someone

Din't we say forever
I still believe the feelling's strong enough
Before you walk away
Let me hear you say you don't need my love

*Chorus

Stay with me
Darlin'after all that we've been through
Nobody else can warm your lonely nights
No one gonna love you like I do
Stay with me
Can't you see we've got too much to lose
Oh stay with me
Stay with me
Baby please

Where is our happy ending
And all of our promises did you forget
Tell me what's the use of love if it can't last
I can never let you leave it this way
I want you to stay

(Repeat chorus)

Got to make you stay somehow
Tell me what's it gonna take
I can't live without you
So please don't leave me now

(Repeat chorus to fade)

Peter Cetera Biography

Singer, songwriter and bassist Peter Cetera has enjoyed a remarkable solo career with two Grammy Award nominations, an Academy Award nomination and four hit singles landing at #1.

Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, Peter Paul Cetera was born into a large family and learned how to harmonize around the house at a young age. Although he wanted to learn to play the guitar, his first instrument was the accordian, selected by his parents. At 14, he had just finished his first year in a seminary when a friend took him to his first concert. He immediately realized that this was where he wanted to be and went out and bought his first guitar.

He took up bass guitar and after finishing high school played in several groups in Chicago while also attending computer school--following the age old parental advice that he "have something to fall back on." Needless to say, his computer career has gone nowhere. Rising to the height of the local scene in a Top 40 cover band named The Exceptions, he happened to hear another group playing live with a new sound, and since they were looking for a bass player, he joined The Big Thing, a group which later changed their name to Chicago Transit Authority.

The group headed to Hollywood to find fame and fortune and, after landing a high-profile gig as the house band at The Whiskey A Go Go, they toured as the opening act for both Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. By the time their first album, Chicago Transit Authority was released, the group had shortened the name to Chicago.

As the lead singer and bassist of Chicago, Cetera wrote some of the biggest hits of the rock and pop music era including "If You Leave Me Now," "Baby, What A Big Surprise," "You're The Inspiration," "Stay The Night," "Feeling Stronger Every Day" and "Hard To Say I'm Sorry." Of their 17 albums, three went platinum, nearly all of them went gold and their first four appeared on the best-seller list all at one time. At one point "If You Leave Me Now" was the #1 song in both the U.S. and Britain.

After a successful run with the group, mutual musical differences led to a parting of the ways. Cetera then realized a life-long ambition and launched his career as a solo artist. He won immense popularity and critical praise with his debut solo album, Solitude/Solitaire, which has the unmistakable sound and romantic intensity he has been polishing his entire career.