When she was a little girl, stepdad hurt her so I met her at Inchoate, away from home We drove up to Illinois And ran through a glowing field of hope It was a new world I was caught up in what could grow Our bones trembling Our hearts at a race; Worried that the light we'd seen, had already taken place A vivid and bright night; And I was praying eagerly to sleep Hiding away in my bunk, hoping that out there some part of me would keep Always thought I knew the song; I'd just memorized the words But truth grew through like a bramble weed Ripped up what I thought was me I remember lying there, learning a joy that thrived in grief Thinking about a garden I left Where there was nothing hiding you from me When I was a little boy, my head set tempest rage My mom would comfort me- A spark lit in thick of hay Told of a river stone -a quartz rock cut with my new name A thought so troubling A ringing I hear to this day The little white stones You tossed in the water of my mind Made clear the water's edge But left waves behind Oh yeah! All reflection Taste on my tongue Feels like... Light echo (Linger in my eye.) We tried stolen fire We tried form alone Give us a white stone! We tried etching names (with) Coal, gold, skin and bone... Give us a white stone! I tried to find it in that field of corn--buried in her eyes But all the names we called ourselves lost rarity with time And they'll build over what was there All I have only holds together for so long--and that thought almost killed me But the lovely sound of what you wrote, that only you and I know Holds me together And though it all goes Tell me again of the white stone