Stick With You
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Title Track
⋆ Korean Title: Just One More Day Per Day
⋆ Genre: Electro Pop
⋆ Producing Credits: Slow Rabbit, Jondren Hwang
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Slow Rabbit, Jondren Hwang, Dev Lemons, Liam Benayon, Tommy Driscoll, "hitman" bang, Jiggy (153/Joombas), Gloria Kaiyi Hui, Jared Fuller Freedman, Rollo, JBACH, Emma Rosen, Grant Averill, Phil Good, January 8th, Yoona Ha (153/Joombas), Kim Nayeon, Kim Chae Ah (153/Joombas), Park Sang Yu (153/Joombas), Stalking Gia, Jackson Hoffman, Ryder Stuart
ABOUT/MEANING: “Stick With You” sits in the uneasy space between togetherness and separation, when a relationship has not ended but no longer feels completely secure. The speaker senses “you” beginning to pull away and responds not with confidence that everything will be fine, but with a vulnerable determination to remain for as long as he can.
What makes that commitment particularly painful is its asymmetry. One person appears more ready to leave, while the other asks for another day, another moment, another chance to remain beside them. At times, that devotion becomes conscious clinging: he knows even the time “you” gives him may be half-hearted and questions whether what remains between them is still love or merely lingering attachment, yet he cannot bring himself to let go.
Choosing someone cannot guarantee that they will make the same choice, and loving them cannot prevent circumstances or feelings from changing. Rather than allowing that uncertainty to make the decision for him, however, the speaker focuses on what remains within his control: he cannot determine what “you” will ultimately choose, but while they are still together, he will not be the one to let go first.
Against the context of TXT’s seventh year and contract renewal, that uncertainty carries additional resonance. Continuation could no longer simply be taken for granted, allowing the song’s desire to stay to resonate with TXT’s relationships with one another and with MOA without reducing the song to a literal account of those relationships.
Its commitment is meaningful precisely because certainty is absent: something is changing, and an ending may even be approaching, but for now the answer remains the same - if there is still time left for us, I want to spend it beside you.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION
Stay with me, just one more day, then one more
I can't let you go, I'll just stick with you
I'm not sure since when, but you've been a bit cold
Even your expression - the way you talk feels unfamiliar
What else can I even say? I just bite my lips again
Every night
We're facing each other but I'm not in your eyes
Slightly out of sync, a distance I can’t close
If I let go of your hand, I know it's going to be over
I just can't do it
Stay with me, just one more day, then one more
I can't let you go, I'll just stick with you
Just one more day, then one more till it becomes a lifetime
Stay by my side like you always have
(Is this a dream?)
(Is this a dream?)
(Is this a dream?)
I can't let you go, I'll just stick with you
I know you're too kind, I know you too well
So, “just one more day,” I keep clinging onto you
Even if it’s a day you give me half-heartedly, I’ll take it
One more night
Whether this is love or just lingering feelings
It doesn't matter to me, I can't live without you
Even if I’m just a mayfly, under your mercy
CONTEXT: Mayflies are known for their extremely short adult lifespans, making them a common symbol of transience and fleeting existence. By comparing himself to a mayfly, the speaker accepts that his remaining time with “you” may be painfully brief: even if the relationship lasts only a little longer and exists at the other person’s mercy, that time is still worth having.
As long as I have you, I’m fine
Stay with me, just one more day, then one more
I can't let you go, I'll just stick with you
Just one more day, then one more till it becomes a lifetime
Stay by my side like you always have
(Is this a dream?)
(Is this a dream?)
(Is this a dream?)
I can't let you go, I'll just stick with you
Stay with me, just one more day, then one more
I can't let you go, I'll just stick with you
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