Make Love Stay

The speaker is asking how a loving relationship can last after loneliness has ended and passion has begun. The mood is both grateful and anxious: love is present, but the speaker knows it may change or disappear. The repeated question makes the song feel less like a celebration and more like a sincere search for a way to protect something precious.

Several images describe love as difficult to hold onto. A fire that burns brightly or only smolders suggests that passion can grow stronger or fade. Love that flies away “like a phantom” is compared to something elusive, almost impossible to catch or remember clearly. The statue with sightless eyes suggests that love without warmth or mystery may remain on the outside while feeling empty inside. “Once deceased not easily exhumed” means that a relationship that has truly died may be very hard to bring back.

The lyrics contrast brief physical pleasure with the deeper, less controllable mystery of love. The speaker seems to wonder whether desire alone can keep a relationship alive, but does not offer a definite answer. The moonless night at the end may emphasize uncertainty: in the dark, the speaker is left with the question of how love can stay. This could express fear, but also a hope that asking the question is part of caring for the relationship.