Words Like Stones is a song about the hurts that lie await inside for that moment they resurface, an unwanted ache etched into one's being. Inside, there's a part of you that remembers everything, a residual energy that recalls all the happiness and heartbreaks, recommissioned to play out over and over.
WORDS LIKE STONES
Hear the sound
Of the day
All around
Turning grey
Here am I
Hollowed out
Drained and dry
Full of doubt
I used to love you so
Oh oh oh oh
I used to love you so
I guess you didn’t know
Oh oh oh oh
I used to love you so
CHORUS
Words like stones
Can break your bones
Lie unseen
Like microtones
Hurt embossed
In permafrost
Waits between
Your layers of loss
You broke my bones
With words like stones
Hear the sound
Of the night
Nothing found
No insight
Just your words
Staining black
Like the birds
Flying back
You used to love me so
Oh oh oh oh
You used to love me so
You said you had to go
Oh oh oh oh
You used to love me so
CHORUS
© ANDY BARKER December 2024
