The link shows this: "Lies" is when the subject is doing the reclining. "Lays" is when the subject is putting something down. The problem is that the past tense of "lie" is "lay"--so, you would say your passion "lies" today, but that yesterday it "lay" somewhere else. This doesn't answer the question.
Here lies a man named Zeke. Second fastest draw in Cripple Creek. Here lies an Atheist all dressed up and no place to go. Here lies Ann Mann, who lived an old maid but died an old Mann. December 8, 1767 Here lies Johnny Yeast. Pardon me for not rising. Here lies Lester Moore. Four slugs from a .44. No Les No More. Here lies the body of Elred
No! It is a cupola atop a tower, my dead young man. Juliet lies here, and her beauty fills this tomb like a festival chamber full of light. Dead man, lie down right thereāanother dead man is burying you. [ROMEO lays PARIS in the tomb] Men are often happy just before their death. Their nurses call it the lightness before death.Lay vs. Lie. Lay and lie are frequently confused verbs that have similar meanings (to do with objects or people lying horizontal on a surface), but for this one big detail - lay is transitive and always has a direct object; lie is intransitive and will never have a direct object. The reason it seems confusing is that the past tense of lie also aiuU.