Precious Stone
Sleeping like a precious stone
Way down underground
She got a beauty that’s all her own
Waiting to be found
A million miles underneath planet earth
Just like that universe
Trying to give it birth
To love and beauty and harmony
Come on baby, dig yourself home to me
Sleeping in a wishing well
Way down underground
ALT: Floating in a wishing well
ALT: Colder than the start of time
I know she’s growing but too slow to tell
Water’s rising past the line
Then I watched the water change from black to green
From green to blue
And the world’s not crazy
It’s just a little strange
And she’s just like me, and I’m just like her
October 24th, 2005
This ambiguous and sinewy number is at the heart of the mysterious Garden song cycle. Amidst dark, ambling, jazz textures and wicked climactic tension retention, Trevor lays down a few lyrics (with haunting backups) and finds one-ness again, “She’s just like me, and I’m just like her.” You can interpret the Stone in many different ways – a rock, a seed, a plant, a star, the spirit of an ol’ hound dog, a person…
December 11th, 2005
here’s what I got for the final lines from A Precious Stone
and then there was a burst of flame
a million filthy fingers burst apart
the tapping still continues today
like the rain on metallic hearts
the first two lines are almost always overshadowed by they’re intruments
January 11th, 2006
Leafaholic, I think you got the last lines right, or close to right!
The ending of the musical part of this song is exactly the first couple of licks of Can You Guess It?, which is next in The Garden Sequence. When the two songs are played together the transition is seemless, and the music is hugely uplifting.
February 22nd, 2008
Intro: F C E A x 3 then F C E E E E (E a bunch of times)
The actual song I’m not so sure about, and I don’t know tabs since I figured it out on piano but the single notes that josh plays are close to:
e-e-b, e-b, a-g-e-g, a-g-e-g-e-d
e-e-b, e-b, a-g-e-g, a-g-e-g-e-d
then the lyrics, then they jam in e pentatonic minor and e pentatonic blues
i know that last little riff that trevor plays at the end is b flat five times then a-g-e
The chords i’ve been playing under that are Em Em G G but I know thats wrong. Eventually it goes back into the intro part again then back to the e-minor part.
December 13th, 2008
PStone is greatness. It’s got that murky, dank older Tea Leaf groove. It is in The Garden. A lot of times they’ll segue Precious Stone > Can U Guess It? which used to be considered the end of the Garden Trilogy, until they added more songs in the mix.
They have not yet recorded / released Precious Stone. That is remarkable how they have such good songs in the repertoire that aren’t even in the album catalog.
It is classic but still has tons of potential every time they play it.
December 17th, 2008
Intro:
F C E A
F C E E
main song chords
E A C
repeat intro at some point
ends with
Bb A G E