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Blood in this Stone

from Homemade Wine by Penelope Swales

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Blood in this Stone
© Penelope Swales 2007

What good would it do
To tell you I miss you
I missed you before you left
No amount of cajolery,
Threats or controllin’ behaviour
Could have got you
The things that you wanted
And I must admit it’s true
I’ve wanted to say to you
Where’s the man that I fell in love with?
But I know that we all have our dark side
And this has been yours
And the things that you’ve done and you’ve said
Are the walls of your torture chamber, yeah.

What good would it do
To tell you I feel for you
I could feel it all along, comin’?
No amount of frustration,
Tears, joy or elation
Could have bound me to you
In the ways that you wanted
And maybe in parody
You might well say to me
Where’s the woman I fell in love with
And all I can say is she was creation of mine
I am way out beyond you
Your moment of reckoning
Now is upon you

And all I can do
Is hang my head before you
And watch you suffer
And I suffer too,
But not quite as much as you wish I would
And should I never have loved you
Just coz I never could have loved you
Quite as much as you wanted
But for all of your squeezin’
I swear there’s still blood in this stone
Oh, for all of your pressure
I swear there’s still blood in this stone
For all of your anger and jealousy
And cruelty so careless
I swear there’s still blood in this stone
And the things that I couldn’t have said
Are the walls of my torture chamber, yeah

What good would it do
To tell you I love you,
And I’ll love you when your love is ashes?
But I can’t solve your problems or ease your pain
And maybe it would do
Some good if I told you
I’ve always believed you can cut it
But whether you want to’s the question
That remains
And the things that we’ve done and we’ve said
Are the walls of this torture chamber, yeah
But for all of this
For all of all of this
I swear there’s still blood in this stone
But for all of this
For all of all of this
I swear there’s still blood in this stone
Oh, for all of this
For all of all of this
I swear there’s still blood in this stone

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from Homemade Wine, released January 7, 1997
Penelope Swales - vocals, guitar
Paul Jonas - violin
Mal Webb - bass
George Papantonio - drums
Carl Pannuzzo - Hammond organ

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Penelope Swales Boolarra, Australia

Penelope Swales has been articulating the human condition with passion and humour for 30+ years. She sings about politics, love, friendship, the unbreakable bond between us and dogs and the impact of the Internet on society. She won the 2019 Alistair Hulett Songs for Social Justice Award with “Cambridge Analytica”. “The Ides of March in Christchurch" was short-listed for the same award in 2020. ... more

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