Released: December 3, 1991

Songwriter: DeVante Swing

Producer: DeVante Swing Al B. Sure!

[Spoken Intro: DeVante Swing, K-Ci, JoJo]
Don't talk
Just listen
First of all
I have to be honest with you baby
I lied
When I told you I never wanted to see you again
Can you (Please stay, baby, hey hey)
Just for tonight
And maybe we can do something
Like make love
Watch the sunrise
Or listen to JoJo (Ooh yeah), K-Ci, sing us a verse
(Whoa, oh, oh)
(Ya know, ya know, ya know, ya know, ya know)
Slide closer, baby
Ha, let DeVante feel ya (My baby, stay)
Oh, you feel so sexy, so good
Ah, JoJo

[Verse 1: JoJo]
I'm sorry I left you
I left you cryin'
But since you've been gone
I've been all alone
'Cause all of my tears
You know they left mе drownin'
Please baby I'm beggin'
For you to stay at homе

[Pre-Chorus: Jodeci & JoJo]
Tonight
Let's start our love again
(Start love again)
Tonight
We can be more than just friends
Don't you know the sun
(You know what)
It is going down
So baby, won't you stay
For a little while
(And baby won't you stay, baby)

[Chorus: Jodeci & JoJo]
Baby, won't you just stay
Baby, won't you just stay
(For a little while)
Baby, won't you just stay
Oh-ho, for a little while)
Baby, won't you just stay

[Post Chorus: K-Ci & JoJo]
(Woo) (Ooh baby)
(Check this out here, baby, won't you just) Stay
(Ooh yeah)

[Verse 2: K-Ci & JoJo]
So here we are, ha
Just me and you (Ooh yeah)
We're thinkin' of the things
That we used to do, babe, haha
(Tonight is yours)
Tonight is yours, lady
Yours and mine (Yeah)
Let's try again to put our trust on the line, yeah

[Pre-Chorus: Jodeci & K-Ci]
Tonight (Oh)
Let's start our love again
(Start our love again)
Tonight
We can more than just friends
(You know the sun)
Don't you know the sun
(Yeah, baby)
Is going down
So baby won't you just stay
(Baby, yeah)
For a little while
(Forget about yesterday)
Stay

[Chorus: Jodeci, K-Ci & JoJo]
Baby, won't you just stay
(Oh-ho)
Baby, won't you just stay
(Ooh, for a little while)
Baby, won't you just stay
(I'm sorry I left you, baby; yes I am, yes I am)
(For a little while)
(I'm sorry I left you crying, baby)
Baby, won't you just stay
(Yes I am, yes I am)
(For a little while)
(I'm on my bended knees, yeah baby)

[Outro: Jodeci, K-Ci & JoJo]
Forget about yesterday
'Cause I want you so bad
Make love to me like you never have
My love is coming down
So baby won't you just stay
For a little while
(Forget about yesterday, baby)
Stay
(I really need you, baby)
Baby, won't you just stay
(Yes I do, yes I do)
For a little while
(I just really love you, baby)
Baby, won't you just stay
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, come on back, come on back, baby)
Baby, won't you just stay
(I want you here with me)
For a little while
(I need you here with me tonight, come on, baby)
Baby, won't you just; baby, won't you just
Baby, baby, won't you just stay
(Oh, baby won't you stay; baby, won't you lay)
(Stay, baby)
(Baby, won't you play with me)
For a little while
Baby, won't you just stay
(And baby, won't you stay; baby, won't you lay)
(Why don't you stay for a little while)
(Baby, won't you play with me)
Baby, won't you just
Baby, baby, won't you just stay
(Come on back in my life)
(For a little while)
(I'm cryin', baby)
Baby, won't you just stay
(Oh) (I really miss you, baby)
For a little while
Oh oh, oh yeah
Ah, ah
Oh yeah, I'm sorry I've done you so wrong, so wrong
And I really need you to come back home (Hoo)
I'm on my bended knee
I'm begging you please
No no no no, no no no no, no no no no
No no no no no no no (Stay)
Come on back, come on back
Come on back, yeah, oh, oh, oh yeah, ooh yeah
Ooh yeah, woo

Jodeci

Started in 1983, Jodeci is comprised of two sets of brothers—Cedric and Joel Hailey (also known as K-Ci and JoJo) and Donald and Dalvin Degrate (also known as DeVante Swing and Mr. Dalvin). Jodeci were once known as the “bad boys of R&B,” notable particularly because they were actually boys at the time, breaking out as teenagers in 1991 with their debut album and its title ballad, “Forever My Lady.” Natives of North Carolina, they were discovered by Heavy D, who overheard their demo when an A&R at Uptown was in the process of passing on them. Heavy D introduced Jodeci to Uptown founder Andre Harrell, who signed them after they sang in his office, and handed them off to his then-protégé Puff Daddy, who outfitted the group in dark shades and coordinating leather ensembles. The look, along with the streetwise soul found in songs like “Cry 4 U” and “Feenin” (as well as a few run-ins with the law) made them the antithesis to good-guy personas of then-peaking R&B superstars Boyz II Men. Devante, who along with Mr. Dalvin held down production duties for the group, founded the Swing Mob, a collective responsible for the discovery of musical geniuses like Timbaland, Missy Elliott, and Static Major. As a group, Jodeci would go on to release three critically-acclaimed album in the ‘90s, before disappearing from the limelight. K-Ci and JoJo splintered off as a duo in 1997, producing hit single “All My Life” and, eventually, five albums, but adoring fans never let go of their Jodeci obsession. In March, the group released The Past, The Present, The Future, the first Jodeci album in two decades. Jodeci, if y'all reading this, where’d you go?