the stone

• charonun tearstained albumunun 11. tracki olan hos otesi bi parca.. klasik charon tarzinda..
  
  i'm ready to go.
  i'm ready to fall into her black.
  oh, how can it stain.
  why is her eyes so full of pain.
  
  oh, why can't i bleed like you do.
  why can't i breath like i did.
  nothing inside of my heart.
  nothing to crave like you have.
  
  i'm throwing the stone.
  i'm ready to blend inside her nest.
  my roam is a cry,
  i cry that is dark inside its frame.
  it's like her lips were made to scream.
  oh, why just i can't see her fear.
• yamultan bir dave matthews band parçası. before these crowded streets albümünden
  
  i've this creeping
  suspicion that things here are not as they seem
  reassure me
  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
  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 alone
  i'm a long way
  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
  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 alone
  i 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
  i was 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 will go alone
  
  i need so
  to stay in your arms, see you smile, hold you close
  and oh it weighs on me
  as heavy as stone and of bone chilling cold
  i was just wondering if you'd come along
  tell me you will.
• dave matthews bandinki acı dolu bir parçadır. parçada özellikle gitar/keman eşlemesini çok başarılı buluyorum.
• her dinledigimde kitlenip elden ayaktan kesildigim,girisindeki kemanlarla gerilimin dorugunda basliip sonradan sarki formatina bürünen insanin icini cizbiz köfte yapan sahane dave matthews band parcasi..
• (bkz: #7647754)
• "and will you cut a stone for him,
  to set above his head?
  and will you cut a stone for him
  a stone for him?" she said.
  
  three days before, a splintered rock
  had struck her lover dead -
  had struck him in the quarry dead,
  where, careless of the warning call,
  he loitered, while the shot was fired -
  a lively stripling, brave and tall,
  and sure of all his heart desired
  a flash, a shock,
  a rumbling fall ...
  and, broken 'neath the broken rock,
  a lifeless heap, with face of clay;
  and still as any stone he lay,
  with eyes that saw the end of all.
  
  i went to break the news to her;
  and i could hear my own heart beat
  with dread of what my lips might say.
  but some poor fool had sped before;
  and flinging wide her father's door,
  had blurted out the news to her,
  had struck her lover dead for her,
  had struck the girl's heart dead in her,
  had struck life, lifeless, at a word,
  and dropped it at her feet:
  then hurried on his witless way,
  scarce knowing she had heard.
  
  and when i came, she stood, alone
  a woman, turned to stone:
  and, though no word at all she said,
  i knew that all was known.
  
  because her heart was dead,
  she did not sigh nor moan,
  his mother wept:
  she could not weep.
  her lover slept:
  she could not sleep.
  three days, three nights,
  she did not stir:
  three days, three nights,
  were one to her,
  who never closed her eyes
  from sunset to sunrise,
  from dawn to evenfall:
  her tearless, staring eyes,
  that seeing naught, saw all.
  
  the fourth night when i came from work,
  i found her at my door.
  and will you cut a stone for him?
  she said and spoke no more:
  but followed me, as i went in,
  and sank upon a chair;
  and fixed her gray eyes on my face,
  with still, unseeing stare.
  and, as she waited patiently,
  i could not bear to feel
  those still, gray eyes that followed me,
  those eyes that plucked the heart from me,
  those eyes that sucked the breath from me
  and curdled the warm blood in me,
  those eyes that cut me to the bone,
  and pierced my marrow like cold steel.
  
  and so i rose, and sought a stone;
  and cut it, smooth and square:
  and, as i worked, she sat and watched,
  beside me, in her chair.
  night after night, by candlelight,
  i cut her lover's name:
  night after night, so still and white,
  and like a ghost she came;
  and sat beside me in her chair;
  and watched with eyes aflame.
  
  she eyed each stroke;
  and hardly stirred:
  she never spoke
  a single word: and not a sound or murmur broke the quiet, save the mallet-stroke. with still eyes ever on my hands, with eyes that seemed to burn my hands, my wincing, overwearied hands, she watched, with bloodless lips apart, and silent, indrawn breath: and every stroke my chisel cut, death cut still deeper in her heart:
  the two of us were chiseling,
  together, i and death.
  and when at length the job was done,
  and i had laid the mallet by,
  as if, at last, her peace were won,
  she breathed his name; and, with a sigh,
  passed slowly through the open door: and never crossed my threshold more.
  
  next night i labored late, alone, to cut her name upon the stone.
  
  (bkz: w. w. gibson)
• zamanında gergin davulları ve kemanlarıyla, göğüste hissedilen baslarıyla dave matthews bande vurulmamı sağlamış, çok da iyi yapmış şarkıdır. vokallerdeki, sözlerle müziğin paralel umutlanışı ve umudunu yitirişi, müzikte kanun haline getirilesidir. üstüne hiçbişi dinliyesim gelmez ama. belki yine umudu ve umutsuzluğu aynıanda içinde barındıran lifting the shadows of a dream
• dave matthews'ün hemen her şarkısı gibi bu da en sevdiğim şarkısıdır. sonundaki mırıldanmalı kısımda konserlerde elvis presley in "but i can't help falling in love wiiith youu" şarkısının nakaratını söler, hatta roseland konserinde seyirci dave matthews'ün girmesini beklemeden o kısmı söylemeye başlamış, youtube'da vardı.
• keep telling myself it s all right isimli ilk albümlerinden bir ashes divide parçası.
  
  i’ve been pushing stones away
  far from these shores
  i pretend that it’s all okay
  till on the brink of what can’t be adored
  we survived
  well we can change
  so let it fade
  just let it go
  we pretend so nothing does change
  we’re flowers never breaking through the stone
  i pretended and prayed it all away
  searching for a place to hide
  but i don’t need afflicted memories
  to fade
  i just wanna feel something real inside
  and we survive
  well we can change
  so let it fade
  let it go
  we pretend so nothing does change
  we’re flowers never breaking through the stone.
  i’ve been pushing stones away
  far from these shores
  i pretend that it’s all okay
  to no longer bring what can be adored
  we survived
  well we can change
  so let it fade
  just let it go
  we pretend so nothing does change
  we’re flowers never breaking through
  we survived
  well we can change
  so let it fade
  just let it go
  we pretend so nothing does change
  we’re flowers never breaking through the stone
• 1993 tarihli babble albümü.
  
  tracklist:
  
  the downward pull of heaven's force
  tribe
  you kill me
  spirit
  take me away
  the stone
  beautiful
  space
  sunray dub
  drive