Hey now, the well run dry
Pages of your book on fire
Read the writing
On the wall

Hoe down, it's a show-down
Ev'rywhere you look, we're fighting
Hear the call

And you know it's gettin' stronger
I can't last very much longer
Turn to stone

Well there's a change in the wind
You know the signs don't lie
Such a strange feelin'
And I don't know why it's takin'
Such a long time

Backyard people
And they work all day
Tired of the speeches and the way
That the reasons keep changin'
Just to make the words rhyme

And you know it's gettin' stronger
Can't make 'em run much longer
Turn to stone


Lyrics submitted by Demau Senae

Turn to Stone Lyrics as written by JOSEPH FIDLER WALSH, TERRY N. TRABANDT

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group, Word Collections Publishing, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.

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    It can mean whatever you want it to, but this is what Joe Walsh said in a Rolling Stone interview:

    "Turn to Stone" was written about the Nixon administration and the Vietnam War and the protesting that was going on and all of that. It's a song about frustration. Also, I attended Kent State. I was at the shootings. That fueled it, too. In those days it felt like the government's priority was not the population. They had an agenda that was about something other than doing what was necessarily good for the country. -Joe Walsh

    LeeRockeron September 29, 2023   Link

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