Stay (Wasting Time)

{{Short description|1998 single by Dave Matthews Band}}

{{Infobox song

| name = Stay (Wasting Time)

| cover = Stay_(Wasting_Time).jpeg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Dave Matthews Band

| album = Before These Crowded Streets

| released = June 28, 1998

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Rock

| length = 5:35 (Album version)
4:34 (Album/remix edit)

| label = RCA

| writer = Matthews, Lessard, LeRoi Moore

| producer = Steve Lillywhite

| prev_title = Don't Drink the Water

| prev_year = 1998

| next_title = Crush

| next_year = 1998

| misc =

}}

"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.{{cite web |url=http://www.vatc.org/newsletter/dashboard2005/dashboardNov05.htm |title=VTC Tourism Dashboard Newsletter |website=www.vatc.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012180150/http://vatc.org/newsletter/dashboard2005/dashboardNov05.htm |archive-date=2007-10-12}} It was also featured in the 2007 film The Kingdom.