Should I stay or should I go?

I know you need to go,
But before you do I want you to know, that I
Wish you the best.
And I wish you nothing less
Than every thing you've ever dreamed of.
And I hope that you find love along the way.
But most of all,
I wish you'd stay.

Why leave when you can stay, why stay if you have to go

if you ever want to leave me
do not forget about smiling
you may forget your hat
gloves a book containing important addresses
anything at all -- for which you have to come back
coming back unexpectedly you will see me in tears
and you will not leave
if you ever want to stay
do not forget about smiling
you are free not to remember my birthday
or the whereabouts of our first kiss
or the reason for our first spat
still if you want to stay
do not go about it sighing
but rather smiling
stay

Don’t stay when you know you should go or go when you know you should stay. Don’t fight when you should hold steady or hold steady when you should fight.

I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

Emotionally, I wanted to stay. Intellectually, I wanted to leave. As always, I seemed to enjoy punishing myself.

I told you I didn’t want to go. Of course, I really did want to go, but I just said I didn’t want to go so you’d beg me to go and I could feel needed. I’m needy like that.

And you say
"Stay"
You say
I only hear what I want to

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Go because you want to go. Because wanting to leave is enough.

"He must have known I'd want to leave you."
"No, he must have known you would always want to come back."

If I should stay, I would only be in your way. So I'll go, but I know I'll think of you ev'ry step of the way. And I will always love you. I will always love you.

...there is a way of leaving and yet of not leaving; of hinting that one loves and is willing to return, yet never coming back and so preserving a relationship in a lingering decay.