"Make Love Stay" is a song written and recorded by American singer-songwriter

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, and released as a single in January 1983. It was one of two new songs included on his 1982

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, along with the song "Missing You". Fogelberg later described "Make Love Stay" in the liner notes to a retrospective album as a "sinuous piece written around a chapter of

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' '' Still Life with Woodpecker''" and as "a musical question that, unfortunately, eludes me still."Hyatt, Wesley (1999). ''The Billboard Book of No. 1 Adult Contemporary Hits'' (Billboard Publications) "Make Love Stay" peaked at No. 29 on the US ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart in March 1983. It was Fogelberg's third song to top the '' Billboard''

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, following his earlier hits "

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" and "

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