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Thinkin'
03:54
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Thinkin’ - Skate Stone
I’m looking for the meaning of life in a bottle of whiskey.
I’ve got the bottom in sight. It’s gettin’ risky.
So what am I gonna do? There’s somethin’ about you
that’s got me thinkin’.
I’m pullin’ on a flask o’ Jack. I ain’t putting any back.
You’ve got me thinkin’ I think I’ll just keep drinkin’.
Tonight, when you looked my way my heart stopped for a while
You took my breath away when you smiled
So what am I gonna do there’s so much about you
that’s got me thinkin’.
I’m pullin’’ on a flask o’ Jack. I ain’t puttin’ any back.
You’ve got me thinkin’ I think I’ll just keep drinkin’.
I first saw you in a drunken dream that turned on a dime.
How can this be true? I’d waited for you such a long, long time.
Are you really mine? Because I’m thinkin’ I musta been drinkin’.
I’m pullin’ on a flask o’ Jack’s. I ain’t puttin’ any back.
You’ve got me thinkin’, I think I’ll just keep drinkin’.
I think I’ll just keep drinkin’.
Drinkin' and thinkin'
© Scott Stone
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2. |
Anthem
04:24
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Anthem - Skate Stone
I've spent my life searchin’ because I had a big notion
That the depth of the ocean and the arc of the sky
Were the only limits to the love we hold in-side.
But nowadays I wonder if I was mis-taken.
It leaves my heart achin’ to reach out my hand
‘cross the walls and the fears our hearts divide.
Be love, free love, sweet you and me love.
She love, he love, all in between love.
Wide a-wake love, no mistakes love, so much at stake love.
Give love, take love - oh, don’t forsake love. Make love!
I've spent my life searchin’ because I had a big notion
That the depth of the ocean and the arc of the sky
Were the only limits to the love we hold in-side.
But nowadays I wonder if I was mis-taken.
It leaves my heart achin’ to reach out my hand
‘cross the walls and the fears our hearts divide.
Reach out, look far. The world is bigger than you are.
All in, all win. Bring out the love within.
Your choice, your voice. Make it a joyful noise.
Join hearts, join hands. Give love what love demands. Yes you can
For love……for love……for love…….
I”ve spent my life searchin’ because I had a big notion
That the depth of the ocean and the arc of the sky
Were the only limits to the love we hold in-side.
© Scott Stone
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3. |
Grandpa
05:02
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Grandpa - Skate Stone
Grandpa took me fishin’ just the other day
We had to get up early, it’s just best that way
He always did things the best way
He always did things the best way
Grandpa tied my fishin’ line, Grandpa cut my bait
My Grandpa was a patient man, he taught me how to wait
All the good things come to those who wait
All the good things come to those who wait
Hey, catfish, take a look at my sardoon
Hey, catfish, take a look at my sardoon
Hey, catfish, take a look at my sardoon,
gonna be my dinner soon
My Grandpa was my Daddy when I most needed one.
All he’d had was daughters, what he needed was a son.
I could pretend I was his son
I could pretend I was his son
Grandpa was a music man, he taught me how to play.
My Grandpa helped me be the one that I am today.
All the good things come to those who wait.
The good things come to those who wait.
Hey, catfish, take a look at my sardoon
Hey, catfish, take a look at my sardoon
Hey, catfish, take a look at my sardoon,
gonna be my dinner soon.
Even though it was so long ago, I think of you each day.
I hold you deep in-side my heart ev’ry song I play…
We played chess for hours after his stroke at 92.
He never said the words, but in his eyes said, “I love you”.
Before he died he said I love you.
Hey Grandpa, take a look at me now.
Hey Grandpa, take a look at me now.
Hey Grandpa, take a look at me now.
Gonna try and do you proud.
My Grandpa was a music man.
He took me fishin’ when he can.
My Grandpa took me fishin’
My Grandpa took me fishin’
My Grandpa took me fishin’
© Scott Stone
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4. |
You
03:50
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You - Skate Stone
Come now baby take a walk with me, hold hands,
We'll go home for tea, brie and candles,
let the music play.
Lay in my arms, tell me ‘bout your day.
You gave it all from the start and more
You're all I ever wanted - Pure, sweet, the way you
open up your heart to me
We love the way we love so sweet.
You give me love so sweet.
You give me love so sweet.
Love so sweet.
You…..You…..
You, you're all I ever wanted
You, you're all I ever wanted
Secure, sure, safe, your fingers on my face,
Trace lovin’ alphabets of silk and lace
Re-place the dark with a light so true.
Do me baby hold me tight to
You…..You…..
You, you're all I ever wanted
You, you're all I ever wanted
You chase the devils from my nights, days, any time they frighten me.
You, you showed my empty heart the right way from dark into the light
Because you gave it all from the start and more
You're all I ever wanted - Pure, sweet, the way you
open up your heart to me
We love the way we love so sweet.
You give me love so sweet.
You give me love so sweet.
Love so sweet.
You…..You…..
You, you're all I ever wanted
You, you're all I ever wanted
© Scott Stone
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5. |
Sway
03:49
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Sway - Skate Stone
Sway to the music of a sad guitar.
Swing to the rhythm of who you are.
Hitch your spirit to a falling star and ride it far as the dawn
We live for love. It’s never enough.
We reach and seldom touch, it hurts too much
We pull inside to hide and long for more
Earth, Moon, stars and Sun, they all flow through us every one.
We live, we love, we age, we die.
No measure, all the tears we cry ’til time is done.
Sway to the music of a sad guitar.
Swing to the rhythm of who you are.
Hitch your spirit to a falling star and ride it far as the dawn
Stay long as you can stay. Pray we live to see another day.
Say what you have to say
Love may not give a second glance, come take a chance on
sweet romance
Don’t let your heart get in your way.
Sway to the music of a sad guitar.
Swing to the rhythm of who you are.
Hitch your spirit to a falling star and ride it far as the dawn
Sway to the music of a sad guitar.
Swing to the rhythm of who you are.
Hitch your spirit to a falling star and ride it far as the dawn
until it’s gone.
Until it’s gone
Until it’s gone
Until it’s gone
© Scott Stone
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6. |
Sweetest Song
04:14
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Sweetest Song - Skate Stone
I know how it feels to live my life without you.
I searched for your love for half my span of years.
Now you’ve pulled me back from the darkness
of my daydreams,
And sing from your heart a symphony of sweetest song
to sweep away my fears.
And you and I were born in a golden light,
Our love given life by the soft, warm glow of the
flame within our hearts.
And every day the newborn sun lights the flame a-new
And the magic of you fills me deep, fills me sweet,
fills me light and dark.
I know how it feels to live my life without you.
I searched for your love for half my span of years.
Now you’ve pulled me back from the darkness
of my daydreams,
And sing from your heart a symphony of sweetest song
to sweep away my fears.
And I love you too….
And I love you too….
© Scott Stone
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7. |
COVID Love
02:30
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COVID Love - Skate Stone
Ivermectin, Famotidine, Hydrogen Peroxide, Chloroquine.
Cocaine, Colloidal Silver, Ethanol. Ultraviolet light, Methanol.
Saltwater, bleach, a boost and a vax.
Hydroxychloroquine, Paxlovid and a mask.
You’ve got the love to nurse me through.
Doctor’s orders, I need you.
Tickle my mind with a COVID swab,
Wrap your legs a-round my heart
Lock me down with your sweet lovin’.
Tell me we will never part.
Fourteen days we’ll never part.
In your P-P-E yer lookin’ good to me.
I lost my E-B-T, now my healthcare’s free.
Let’s take a rapid test. I think we need bed-rest.
I got a rattle in my chest I really must ad-dress.
Defibrillate my heart. Take my vital signs.
I’m yours and you’re mine two weeks at a time.
Ivermectin, Famotidine, Hydrogen Peroxide, Chloroquine.
Cocaine, Colloidal Silver, Ethanol. Ultraviolet light, Methanol.
Saltwater, bleach, a boost and a vax.
Hydroxychloroquine, Paxlovid and a mask.
You’ve got the love to nurse me through.
Doctor’s orders, I need you.
Tickle my mind with a COVID swab,
Wrap your legs a-round my heart
Lock me down with your sweet lovin’.
Tell me we will never part.
Fourteen days we’ll never part.
© Scott Stone
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8. |
ChildsPlay
02:36
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ChildsPlay - Skate Stone
Get along a song, you gonna say a-which a-way
Gonna gettin’ along on the lone highway
See the clock a-tick tockin’
Get yo’ mama rockin’
Suzy bobby sockin’
Gon’ give it away.
Ya gonna clap, clap, side to side.
Ya gonna shake y’ hips ’til the broad daylight
Ya gonna criss cross all across the room
Ya gonna boom shaka-shaka-shaka boom.
What-cho’ mama gonna say, she gotcha every which a-way
She change yo’ diaper every day, she say, “Whoop, gotta go!”
It’s a buy out, sell out, think o’ whatcha shell out
When you gonna take me to the movie show.
Ooh, ahh, you go too far, say
Ooh, oh, you move too slow
Ooh, ah, don’t go too fast.
We gotta make the moment last.
Doctor, Doctor, please come quick
Suzy got a headache, she sick, sick, sick.
Mama say, “Go away”, Daddy say, “Come!”
Suzy say, “Whatcha say? Gimme a hug!”
Mamma’s cookin’,
Sister baby shookin’
Papa’s on his knees sayin’, “Go, go go!”
Gimme me up town, down town, won’t-cha come to my town?
Show whatcha do behind the movie show.
Ooh, ahh, you go too far, say
Ooh, oh, you move too slow
Ooh, ah, don’t go too fast.
We gotta make the moment last.
ChildsPlay, take me away.
ChildsPlay, I could play all day
ChildsPlay, let’s get it right
Chew bop ch’booty on a Saturday night.
I’m ChildsPlay, in your arms.
I’m ChildsPlay, taken with your charms.
ChildsPlay, come ’n hold me tight.
Chew bop ch’booty on a Saturday night.
ChildsPlay…
ChildsPlay…
ChildsPlay, I don’t wanna grow up
I ain’t had enough
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9. |
Bloody Bones
04:36
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Bloody Bones - Skate Stone
Moon Glow, cold wind blow, darken my heart, blacken my soul.
Hear them cry, hear them moan. Devil take these Bloody Bones.
Death go home. Leave me a-lone. Devil take these Bloody Bones.
Old Jake Jones was dyin’ alone, swingin’ to and fro’
on a hangman’s rope.
He said a last prayer to the Devil, take care. He said,
“I give up my soul, take me out of here”
His soul was the price of eternal life. He was the hand of
death each night.
Reaped a bloody harvest all around these hills, and he
sang this song as he made his kill:
Moon Glow, cold wind blow, darken my heart, blacken my soul.
Hear them cry, hear them moan. Devil take these Bloody Bones.
Death go home. Leave me a-lone. Devil take these Bloody Bones.
So the story goes, I heard my grandma tell.
After ninety nine years Satan took his soul
straight back to hell.
The bill came due for bad ol’ Mister Jones.
The Devil took his Bloody, Bloody Bones.
That evil old man, he sealed his fate, for sin is
Satan’s incestuous mate.
Take care when you walk in these woods alone or the
Devil take your Bloody Bones.
Devil take your Bloody, Bloody Bones.
Moon Glow, cold wind blow, darken my heart, blacken my soul.
Hear them cry, hear them moan. Devil take these Bloody Bones.
Death go home. Leave me a-lone. Devil take these Bloody Bones.
Moon Glow, cold wind blow, darken my heart, blacken my soul.
Death go home. Leave me a-lone. Devil take these Bloody Bones.
© Scott Stone
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10. |
HEAVEN
05:08
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HEAVEN - Skate Stone
The sands of time sift so swiftly thru my grasping hands
The years click by oh, so quickly. They won’t stop at
my command
But I say, “Death, Death the Taker, you’ve got to understand
me clear,
That I already live in heaven, why not just leave me here.”
I already live in Heaven, so Death, please leave me be.
I already live in Heaven. I don’t need to be set free.
I’ve already found eternity. Death, please listen. I speak true.
Tell the Shades of Time they don’t need me, ‘Cuz I’ve got
Heaven right here with you.
I know Death would like my company, But I’ve already
worked it through.
Thanks anyway, I’ve got Heaven right here with you.
I already live in Heaven, in our own lover’s Paradise.
I already live in Heaven. I see forever in your eyes.
Death came knocking recently.
He wrapped his icy hands ‘round me.
But I’m not goin’ easily,
There’s so much loving left to do.
So much love to give to you.
So much love to give to you.
So much love to give to you.
I already live in Heaven, so Death, please leave me be.
I already live in Heaven. I don’t need to be set free.
‘Cuz I’ve found Heaven for you and me.
‘Cuz I’ve found Heaven for you and me.
© Scott Stone
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11. |
Take Each Day
03:00
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Take Each Day - Skate Stone
Take each day as a gift to you.
Be wise with your time, it’s too precious to lose. Open your heart. Forgive my humanity.
Measure your days in the love you share.
Love broad and deep. Let your spirit shine.
Cherish your family as they live.
Hold your children until they learn it’s not what they take,
but the love they give.
Take each day as a gift to you.
Be wise with your time, it’s too precious to lose. Open your heart. Forgive my humanity.
Measure your days in the love you share.
Hitch your spirit to the long, long road.
Look ahead and look be-hind.
In-vest your trust in the friends you choose, they will give you
back in kind.
Take each day as a gift to you.
Be wise with your time, it’s too precious to lose. Open your heart. Forgive my humanity.
Measure your days in the love you share.
© Scott Stone
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12. |
Our Time
04:20
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Our Time - Skate Stone
There’s never enough time. There’s never time to wonder.
There’s never enough breaths to take before the tide can
pull us under.
There are never enough sunsets left to count before we’re through.
Never enough thanks to give for the time I have with you.
We’ve had enough of pain. We’ve had enough of sorrow.
Let’s do our best today and try again tomorrow.
There are only enough heartbeats left to take us to the end.
Never enough love to make in the time we have to spend. But…
We are not a-lone. There’s no need to be afraid.
Countless generations told. Think of all the lives they made.
This is our time. But there’s never enough time…
Have we run out of questions, or are we afraid to ask?
Are we ready for the lessons we can learn
from those who’ve passed?
We are remembered by those we’ve left behind.
With those before us so tightly intertwined. So…
We are not a-lone. There’s no need to be afraid.
Countless generations told. Think of all the lives they made.
This is our time. But there’s never enough time…
But there’s never enough time.
There’s never enough time.
There’s never enough time.
There won’t be enough time.
© Scott Stone
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Skate Stone San Francisco, California
Skate Stone - San Francisco singer/songwriter, guitarist, teacher - is celebrating 60 years as a
performer.
Skate’s songs are of love and death, pain and pills, family and hope. They are delivered up with wry humor, folky optimism, lush melodies and stellar vocals. He brings to Americana his own mix of folk, blues, rock, and jazz.
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