This song is about rescue and loyalty. A Vagrant Records bio of Thrice explains: “Stay with Me,” is an homage to one of Dustin’s favorite Josh Ritter songs “The Temptation of Adam” — about a couple who fall in love after taking shelter in a missile silo fearing the end of the world. Here Dustin imagines their above ground and post-apocalyptic analogue, but in both songs, the protagonist is haunted by what would happen to their love, should they find “the war was over.”

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