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"Stay (Wasting Time)"
SinglebyDave Matthews Band
from the album Before These Crowded Streets
ReleasedJune 28, 1998
GenreRock
Length5:35 (Album version)
4:34 (Album/remix edit)
LabelRCA
Songwriter(s)Matthews, Lessard, LeRoi Moore
Producer(s)Steve Lillywhite
Dave Matthews Band singles chronology
"Don't Drink the Water"
(1998) 		"Stay (Wasting Time)"
(1998) 		"Crush"
(1998)

"Stay (Wasting Time)" is a song by Dave Matthews Band, released as the second single off their album Before These Crowded Streets. As a single, it reached #8 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, #33 on Top 40 Mainstream, and #20 on the Adult 40. The song features The Lovely Ladies (Tawatha Agee, Cindy Myzell, and Brenda White King) on background vocals.

The song was used by the Virginia Tourism Corporation for a 2005 television commercial.[1] It was also featured in the 2007 film The Kingdom.

Track listing[edit]

  1. "Stay (Wasting Time)" (Remix Edit) — 4:34
  2. "Stay (Wasting Time)" (Album Edit) — 4:34
  3. "Stay (Wasting Time)" (Album Version) — 5:36

Australian Version[edit]

  1. "Stay (Wasting Time)" (Edit) - 2:55
  2. "Stay (Wasting Time)" (Album Edit) - 4:30
  3. "Lover Lay Down" - 6:22

Live releases[edit]

A live performance of "Stay (Wasting Time)" is featured on the following albums:

Charts[edit]

Chart (1998) Peak
position
USBillboard Hot 100 Airplay 44
USBillboard Mainstream Top 40 33
USBillboard Modern Rock Tracks 8
USBillboard Mainstream Rock Tracks 35
USBillboard Adult Top 40 20

References[edit]

  1. ^ "VTC Tourism Dashboard Newsletter". www.vatc.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-12.


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