The Stone

Album: Before These Crowded Streets (1998)
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  • I've this creeping
    Suspicion that things here are not as they seem
    Reassure me
    Oh, why do I feel as if I'm in too deep?
    Now, I've been praying
    For some way to show them
    I'm not what they see
    Yes I have done wrong
    But what I did I thought needed be done
    I swear

    Oh, unholy day
    If I leave now I might get away
    Oh but, this weighs on me
    As heavy as stone and as blue as I go

    I was just wondering if you'd come along
    To hold up my head when my head won't hold on
    I'll do the same if the same's what you want
    If not I'll go
    I will go alone
    A long way
    Oh, from that fool's mistake
    and now forever pay
    No, run
    I will run and I'll be OK

    I was just wondering if you'd come along
    To hold up my head when my head won't hold on
    I'll do the same if the same's what you want
    But if not I'll go
    I will go a long way

    To bury the past
    For I don't want to pay
    Oh, how I wish this
    To turn back the clock
    And do over again

    Now, I'm just wondering if you'd come along
    hold up my head when my head won't hold on
    I'll do the same if the same's what you want
    But if not I'll go
    I'll go alone

    I need so
    To stay in your arms see you smile hold you close
    And now it weighs on me
    As heavy as stone and a bone chilling cold
    I was just wondering if you'd come along
    Tell me you will Writer/s: David John Matthews
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Comments: 1

  • Thomas from St. Charles, IlThe real meaning of this song is about Dave's Sister's husband. The husband murdered his wife (Dave's sister) and this song is about the perspective of the killer. The song shares what the killer was thinking before and after the attack. Its a great song with powerful meaning, but this song explains how great of an artist you have to be to compose somehting like this, out of the ordinary.
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