Artists
Peter Murphy – lead vocals, lyrics, arrangement
Stephen Perkins – drums
Gardner Cole – keyboards, bongo
Written by Ned Bouhalassa & Peter Murphy. Produced by Gardner Cole. The tenth track (4:15) on Unshattered (Viastar Records, 19 October 2004).
A track from Peter Murphy’s seventh solo album, which features several veterans of the Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros circle: drummer Stephen Perkins appears on this song, and guitarist Peter DiStefano and bassist Eric Avery contribute elsewhere on the record. The album was produced by songwriter Gardner Cole, who also plays keyboards and percussion on several tracks.
Peter Murphy – The First Stone Lyrics
My white visions continue
This younger skin’s outgrown old ways
Given what I need
I’m listening to how the silent sway
Still there’ll be poison pens
And that pick of bones
Still a stand to cast
The first stone
Still there’ll be poison pens
And that pick of old bones
Still a stand to cast
The first stone
(The first stone)
Check the day out
The human race is doing time
Locked in some flimsy cage
Made of the stuff of the free will kind
Hear my heart smash
My self made throne
Hoping not to cast
The first stone
Hear my heart smash
My self made throne
Hoping not to cast
The first stone
(The first stone)
(The first stone)
(The first stone)
Hear my heart smash
My self made throne
I promise not to cast
The first stone
Oh
The first stone
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