ARTIST: The Dave Matthews Band
TITLE: The Stone

Lyrics Source: Album Liner Notes, Observation

Overture:
(instrumental - String Quartet alone - Guitar joins - Violin joins - Drums join - Bass guitar joins)

I've this creeping suspicion that things here are not what they seem
You 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...

(Sax solo)

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

Chorus:
I was just wond'ring 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
If not I'll go...I'll go alone...

A long way AHAHO from that fool's mistake
And I'll forever pay - No run - I'll run and I'll be okay

I was just wond'ring 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...

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...

(Violin solo)

Now I'm just wond'ring if you'll 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...

(Instrumental Refrain)

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

(Slow and hypnotic)
I was just wondering if you'd come along
Tell...me...you...will...

(Alternating Violin & String Quartet w/ Bass, Sax, Guitar, Flute)
(fade)