According to the Hits are for Squares liner notes,
“Stones” ruminates on forgiveness, courage and death as new and supernatural life. Sounds heavy, but no more so than Buffy the Vampire Slayer, really.
[Verse 1]
Lights on the stones on backed-up drain
What lovers list on languid stain
We've come together to gather star
Shooting up stones a pallored heart
[Bridge]
The dead or alive
There's danger
The dead are alright
With me
[Chorus]
We're not gonna run away
We're not gonna leave you stranger
We turn the light on your lonely home
[Verse 2]
Camera on the haunted stones
Blood-shadow gentle painted scorn
Now it's dancing ink across your skin
Hieroglyphic-lover nature-friend
[Bridge]
The dead or alive
There's danger
The dead are alright
With me
[Chorus]
We're not gonna run away
We're not gonna leave you stranger
We turn the light on your lonely home
Stones was written by Steve Shelley & Jim O’Rourke & Lee Ranaldo & Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore.
Stones was produced by Sonic Youth.
Sonic Youth released Stones on Tue Jun 08 2004.