Stay

Stay may refer to:

General

• Stays (nautical), the heavy ropes, wires, or rods on sailing vessels that run from the masts to the hull
• Collar stays, small rigid pieces used to maintain the point of a men's dress shirt collar
• Corset, a garment worn to mold and shape the torso
  • Bone (corsetry), one of the rigid parts of a corset
• Guy-wire, a metal wire used to support tall structures, such as radio masts
• A part of a steam locomotive's firebox
• Seat stay and chain stay, parts of a bicycle frame

Law

• Two types of court order, either of which may be called simply a stay:
  • Stay of execution, a ruling to temporarily suspend the enforcement of a court judgment—often, but not always, referring to a stay of a death sentence
  • Stay of proceedings, a ruling halting further legal process in a trial

Music

Albums

• Stay (The Controllers album), or the title song, 1986
• Stay (Jeremy Camp album), or the title song (see below), 2002
• Stay (Oingo Boingo album), or the title song (see below), 1990
• Stay (Simply Red album), or the title song, 2007
• Stay: Yoake no Soul, a 2009 album by Garnet Crow
• Stay, a 1987 album by Lory Bianco (recording as Bonnie Bianco), or the title song

Songs

• "Stay" (2-4 Family song)
• "Stay" (Bernard Butler song)
• "Stay" (Beulah song)
• "Stay" (David Bowie song)
• "Stay" (David Guetta song)
• "Stay" (Destine song)
• "Stay" (Elisa song)
• "Stay" (Eternal song)
• "Stay" (Fayray song)
• "Stay" (Hurts song)
• "Stay" (Jay Sean song)
• "Stay" (Jeremy Camp song)
• "Stay" (Jodeci song)
• "Stay" (Maurice Williams song), a song by Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs notably covered by Frankie Valli, The Hollies, Jackson Browne, and others
• "Stay" (Ne-Yo song)
• "Stay" (Nick Jonas & the Administration song)
• "Stay" (Pink Floyd song)
• "Stay" (SafetySuit song)
• "Stay" (Sash! song)
• "Stay" (Shakespears Sister song)
• "Stay" (Stephen Gately song)
• "Stay" (Sugarland song)
• "Stay" (Tooji song)
• "Stay?", by the Rogue Traders
• "Stay (Faraway, So Close!)", by U2
• "Stay (I Missed You)", by Lisa Loeb and Nine Stories
• "Stay (Wasting Time)", by the Dave Matthews Band
• "Stay: Now I'm Here", by Dream
• "Stay", by Agnetha Faltskog from Wrap Your Arms Around Me
• "Stay", by Alison Krauss from Forget About It
• "Stay", by Belly from Star
• "Stay", by The Blue Nile from A Walk Across the Rooftops
• "Stay", by Cueshé from Half Empty Half Full
• "Stay", by Destiny's Child from The Writing's on the Wall
• "Stay", by Dave Gahan from Paper Monsters
• "Stay", by Down to Earth Approach from the compilation A Santa Cause: It's a Punk Rock Christmas
• "Stay", by Giant from Time to Burn
• "Stay", by Hillsong Music Australia from By Your Side
• "Stay", by Little Big Town from Little Big Town
• "Stay", by Madonna from Like a Virgin
• "Stay", by Mayday Parade from Mayday Parade
• "Stay", by Miley Cyrus from Can't Be Tamed
• "Stay", by Oingo Boingo from Dead Man's Party
• "Stay", by Poets of the Fall from Signs of Life
• "Stay", by Robbie Seay Band from Give Yourself Away
• "Stay", by Rufus featuring Chaka Khan from Street Player
• "Stay", by Saves the Day from Under the Boards
• "Stay", by The Tragically Hip from Music @ Work
• "Stay", by Tyrese
• "Stay", by The Waifs from Sun Dirt Water
• "Stay", by Wendy and Lisa from Wendy and Lisa
• "Stay", by Will Oldham (recording as Bonnie 'Prince' Billy)
• "Stay", composed by Ernest Gold and Norman Gimbel for the 1969 film The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Other media

• Stay (novel), a crime novel by Nicola Griffith
• Stay (Caletti novel), a young-adult novel by Deb Caletti
• Stay (film), a 2005 psychological thriller directed by Marc Forster
• Sleeping Dogs Lie (2006 film) (originally titled Stay), a romantic comedy directed by Bobcat Goldthwait

See also

• All pages beginning with "Stay"