Stones (Album Version)

[Verse 1]

Under cherry blue skies
There’s a boy sitting silent
In the shade of an ironwood tree

[Verse 2]

He doesn’t know now
But his heart will know soon—
He’s so specially different
Like me

[Pre-Chorus 1]

It kills to find out your love is a crime
To the ones that taught you to love

[Chorus]

You didn’t choose to be beaten and bruised
By the stones that built your home
The stones that built your home

[Verse 4]

There’s a girl in the mirror
Taunted by the reflection
Of someone she’ll never be

[Verse 5]

In a silken pink dress that falls
To her ankles like chains
She longs to be free

[Pre-Chorus 2]

Her brother’s tuxedo that hangs in the closet
Would fit her much better she knows

[Chorus]

She didn’t choose to be beaten or bruised
By the stones that built her home
The stones that built her home

[Verse 6]

Every once in a while
When the cries get too loud
And hurt is all we see

Call out the wrongs
At the top of our lungs—
We have the right to be

[Bridge]

We’re damned and abused
Often stripped of our truth
Aren’t we all deserving of love?

[Chorus]

We didn’t choose to be beaten or bruised
By the stones that built our homes
The stones that built our homes