Elephant Stone Lyrics
Kiss in the cotton clouds
Arctic sheets and fields of wheat
I can't stop coming down
Your shrunken head
Looking down on me above
Send me home like an elephant stone
To smash my dream of love
And night turns into day
Rooms are empty I've got plenty
You could move in right away
In my dreams
In my dreams
In my dreams
Choke on the cotton clouds
Arctic sheets and fields of wheat
I can't stop coming down
Your shrunken head
Looking down on me above
Send me home like an elephant stone
To smash my dream of love
And run run run away
These four walls saw the rise and fall
And your midnight getaway
In my dreams
Or so it seems
Yet nothing means anything
Anymore
Agreed. The album version is far supirior to the other mix... I'm of the opinion it's about a guy who thinks...rather highly of himself, we'll say. But he's brought down to earth "like an elephant stone" by the girl of his dreams wanting nothing to do with him.
Anybody heard the Mint Royal version, completeley different track should be included on every chill out CD. I thought an Elephant Stone meant a massive stash of drugs or something to do with South American folk law? Sounds like a Heroine inspired track to me, not sure if messrs Brown and Squire were par takers of the old brown though? always reminds me of coming down of a pill though
This is my interpretation too.
This is my interpretation too.
This one time I was madly in love with a girl, and I thougt she was just as madly in love with me. But one night after some drinking she broke the news, the following weeks were just like this song. So that's what it's about to me, losing that dream of being with a certain person or having love in your life, and not knowing what to do without it.
I always thought it was "feels like there's a HOME in my dreams". Because in a way, our dreams are a pure expression of our internal self - they are an exclusive construction of our thoughts, memories, desires etc.
The whole song is surreal.
"Send me home like an elephant stone" - reminds me of the bizarre and heavy transition into the dream world of sleep.
Love the 'elephant trumpeting' distortion in the beginning ^^
Never really said drugs to me. Generally just a brilli\nt song and the lyrics can sound superb if your feeling a particular way.
Such an upbeat song about a guy who gets rejected by a lass. I love it.
Another way of listenin to this track is to play it after, Fake Plastic Trees by Radiohead, u'll see magic happen, not the long version, the shorter version, with the guitar intro rather than the drum intro. Genius arrangement.
It's about liking somebody and thinking they think the same about you, then consequently being let down. We've all been there. I love how The Roses take negetive stuff like that and put it in an upbeat context, brilliant!
in my opion this is the best ever song writtin, the structure of it, ians voice, manis bass, ians fantastic riffs and reni stunning drumming. its got to be about a girl who u thinks needs you but there is a delay and in reality see just knocks you down in one. you have got to have a gud imagionation to write stuff like this.
"It's about a girl… who I don't see anymore". (John Squire)
It's an absolutely brilliant tune. I especially like the outro of the song.