The Stone (song)

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"The Stone"
"The Stone" cover
Song by Dave Matthews Band
Album Before These Crowded Streets
Released April 28, 1998
Recorded The Plant Studios, Sausalito, CA & Electric Lady Studios, New York, NY
Genre Rock
Length 7:28
Label RCA
Writer David J. Matthews
Composer Dave Matthews Band
Producer Steve Lillywhite
Before These Crowded Streets track listing
"Halloween"
(6)		 "The Stone"
(7)		 "Crush"
(8)

"The Stone" is a Dave Matthews Band song from the album Before These Crowded Streets. The song is about a guilt over death which one may have caused, and the "stone" in the song refers to a gravestone. The song originally held the working title "Chim Chimeney."

Other interpretations of the song include a theme of Dave Matthews' fear of asking his wife for marriage, as well as the life of Judas Iscariot who betrayed Jesus in his final days.[citation needed]

The song is written in a 6/8 time signature and features orchestral arrangements by John D'earth with the Kronos Quartet on strings. A 28-second studio jam in 2/2 is heard at the end of the track.

In concert, especially at acoustic shows, Matthews has been known to interpolate Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love" towards the end of the song (Leroi Moore's saxophone can be heard playing the melody of said song on the album version). During live performances of the song, the band plays an unsettling outro not featured on the studio version. Toward the end of the song, after it decrescendos, the band suddenly and intensely comes back in with the main riff of the song and finishes that way as opposed to fading out gracefully as on the album itself.

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Studio and independent releases Remember Two Things • Recently (EP) • Under the Table and Dreaming • Crash • Before These Crowded Streets • Everyday • Busted Stuff • Stand Up
Live releases Live at Red Rocks • Listener Supported • Live in Chicago • Live at Folsom Field • The Central Park Concert • The Gorge • Weekend on the Rocks • Live at Piedmont Park
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Compilation releases The Videos: 1994–2001 • The Best of What's Around Vol. 1
Singles "What Would You Say" • "Jimi Thing" • "Typical Situation"• "Ants Marching" • "Satellite" • "Too Much" • "So Much to Say" • "Two Step" • "Crash into Me" • "Tripping Billies" • "Don't Drink the Water" • "Stay (Wasting Time)" • "Crush" • "Rapunzel" • "I Did It" • "The Space Between" • "Everyday" • "Where Are You Going" • "Grace Is Gone" • "Grey Street" • "American Baby" • "Dreamgirl" • "Everybody Wake Up (Our Finest Hour Arrives)" • "Smooth Rider" • "Work It Out"
Solo albums and side projects In November Sunlight • Live at Luther College • True Reflections • Some Devil • Live at Radio City
Related articles Discography • Tours • The Lillywhite Sessions • Warehouse Fan Association • Musictoday • Dave Matthews & Friends • Tribe of Heaven • Coran Capshaw
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