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Horse of Stone was born out of a recurrent dream of Tom's:
"I was lost in the mountains and rounded a bend in the trail to see a frieze of horses, turned to stone and trapped in the rock. When the dream returned, I was again lost in the mountains, but in the winter. I rounded the same bend to see the horses, this time real but frozen.
When I thought of a way to get down, the first of the horses moved, and came out of the rock a whole, live horse. All of the horses came out after him, and we went down the mountain single-file. The last horse to get out of the rock kept losing his coat as we descended, so that by the time we reached the plain he had turned into a man."

The song Horse of Stone comments on the dream, and is in 3 beats. Talea patterns arch chords over grooves. Each verse fits with its predecessor. Solo vocal sections have Miles Davis in mind. The choruses take after the Old People’s Music of the Shona of Zimbabwe.

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Only when you love the stone can you call the horse your own

Chorus: A horse of stone in a hill
horse of stone, stone in a hill

It’s hard to show someone to love or shove him there
scare him or let him try
it’s hard to show, it’s hard to know if you’re shy like me
On a hill I found a horse in stone caught in his ripest age
but I saw him stir and climb right out of his mountain cage

His eyes said to look to find our way home again
but when I rounded the rock I stopped and he was stone again

(Chorus)

Gone like a dream, many sleeps later I was there
I took him for granite but he was a jade, but he was a jade
he was alive too

I led him down with all of his brothers walking behind him
and the last one shed his coat because he was really a man

When I could love him he gave way to feeling and he could move

(Chorus)

credits

from HORSE OF STONE: Global Jazz Songs, released May 27, 2015
Tom Ross, guitar,bass and vocals; Jody Cormack, guitar and vocals; Charlie Keagle, reeds and keyboard; Kim Calkins, drums

Produced and Recorded by Stephen Quinn Barncard

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so impotent our wisdom is
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