Stay (Wasting Time)

"Stay (Wasting Time)"
Single by Dave 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.

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