Stones - intimate piano recording

by Rae Isla

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I wrote this song in Lo De Marco, Nayarit, Mexico where my dad used to live, after a surreal day with a local man named Tacho (pictured) who took me riding through the mountains and beaches on horseback, followed by tea and conversation on his deck as the sun set. We talked about a spirit that lived in his house — built on Huichol land. We spoke in English and Spanish and perhaps a 3rd language, of deep understanding. He walked me home through a field blanketed by a sky with more stars in it than darkness. I wrote a diary entry + this song immediately afterwards. It’s about realizing your stories, your memories, your treasures, are all a part of you — and they’re worth collecting and sharing with others (like stones).

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Even glaciers get depressed sometimes
Picking up stones to leave them behind
While I’m trying to reinvent myself
I am slowly losing my mind
Oh I want to wander ‘cause I wonder
Is it any way for me to live?
Tethered to what I don’t love
While holding back on everything I have to give

Oh stones carry them home
Weary are my bones since I’ve been gone
Dark is the day when you’ve got nothing left to say
I’ve got a message for you babe, I’m coming home

I find scapegoats for the truth I know
And bury it so deep that I can’t hear
Being dominated by a dominatrix
Playing off all of my fears
And I fear that I’m one day from
Losing it I’ve come undone
I try to sleep
But here I lie awake

Oh stones carry them home
Weary are my bones since I’ve been gone
Dark is the day when you’ve got nothing left to say
I’ve got a message for you babe, I’m coming home

Even glaciers get depressed sometimes
Picking up stones to leave them behind
While I’m trying to reinvent myself
I am slowly losing my mind
Even glaciers get depressed sometimes
Picking up stones to leave them behind
While I’m trying to reinvent myself
I am slowly losing my mind
Even glaciers get depressed sometimes
Picking up stones to leave them behind

So I’ve started to collect them all
To show you any treasures that I find

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released January 26, 2024

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