Bobby Mack & I, join forces for an instrumental version of ELPs' 'Stones of Years' from their 1971 album, TARKUS
Story behind the song
Tarkus is the second album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1971.
The chief feature of the album is the "Tarkus" suite, originally forming the whole of Side one of the album.
Greg Lake stated in an early interview that he viewed Tarkus as a representation of the military-industrial complex, and that his lyrics were about that, and about the futility of war and strife.
On the album cover, made after the music was created and recorded, Tarkus is depicted as a half armadillo/half tank creature, born from an egg erupted from a volcano.
Lyrics
The Stones Of Years
Has the dawn ever seen your eyes?
Have the days made you so unwise?
Realize, you are.
Had you talked to the winds of time,
Then you'd know how the waters rhyme,
Taste of wine,
How can you know where you've been?
In time you'll see the sign
And realize your sin.
Will you know how the seed is sown?
All your time has been overgrown,
Never known.
Have you walked on the stones of years?
When you speak, is it you that hears?
Are your ears bone?
You can't hear anything at all.