The Stone Roses released their second album, Second Coming, in 1994, which received mixed reviews. The group soon disbanded after several line-up changes throughout the supporting tour, which began with Reni departing in early 1995, followed by Squire in April 1996. Brown and Mani dissolved the remains of the group in October 1996 following their appearance at Reading Festival.
Following much intensified media speculation, the Stone Roses called a press conference on 18 October 2011 to announce that the band had reunited and would perform a reunion world tour in 2012, including three homecoming shows in Heaton Park, Manchester. Plans to record a third album in the future were also floated but only two singles were released. In June 2012, Chris Coghill, the writer of a new film which is set during the Stone Roses 1990 Spike Island show, revealed that the band "have at least three or four new tracks recorded". In June 2013, a documentary about the band's reformation directed by Shane Meadows and titled The Stone Roses: Made of Stone was released.
In 2016, the Stone Roses released their first new material in two decades. The band members continued to tour until June 2017, at which point cryptic remarks by Brown indicated the band had split again, which was later confirmed in a 2019 interview with Squire.
Full Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stone_Roses
Studio albums
The Stone Roses (1989)
Second Coming (1994)
I Am the Resurrection
The Stone Roses Lyrics
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I hear you knocking down my
Door and I can't sleep at night
Your face it has no place
No room for you inside my
House I need to be alone
Don't waste your words I don't need
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
Turn turn I wish you'd learn
There's a time and place for everything
I've got to get it through
Cut loose 'cause you're no use
I couldn't stand another
Second in your company
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
Stone me why can't you see
You're a no one nowhere washed up baby
Who'd look better dead
Your tongue is far too long
I don't like the way it sucks and
Slurs upon my every word
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd
Like
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd
Like
The Stone Roses's song "I Am the Resurrection" is a powerful track filled with intense emotions and unapologetic lyrics. The song starts with the singer feeling down and unable to sleep because of someone knocking on his door. He expresses his desire to be left alone and not have this person in his life. He doesn't care about their past or future plans, implying that their presence is not needed.
In the next verse, the singer is still trying to get through to this person who is not learning the boundaries of time and place. He expresses how miserable he feels in their company and how he needs to let them go because they are no longer useful. The singer compares the person to a "no one, nowhere, washed-up baby" who would "look better dead" and who has a "far too long" tongue. This intense burn is typical of The Stone Roses's music, where they don't shy away from expressing their true feelings.
The chorus is where the song gets its title and meaning. The singer declares himself to be "the resurrection and the life" and how he cannot hate this person as much as he'd like. The lyrics suggest that the singer has reached a point where he is beyond the negativity and spite that was earlier present in the song. The song ends on an optimistic note, where the singer has healed himself and risen above the negativity that this person brought to his life.
Line by Line Meaning
Down down you bring me down
You are a negative influence in my life and bring me down emotionally.
I hear you knocking down my
Door and I can't sleep at night
Your presence and actions are intrusive and keep me up at night with anxiety.
Your face it has no place
No room for you inside my
House I need to be alone
I do not want you in my life and I need to be alone in my personal space.
Don't waste your words I don't need
Anything from you
I don't care where you've been or
What you plan to do
I do not value your opinion, presence or actions and have no interest in your past or future.
Turn turn I wish you'd learn
There's a time and place for everything
I've got to get it through
Cut loose 'cause you're no use
I couldn't stand another
Second in your company
You need to understand that there are appropriate times and places for certain things and that I need to cut ties because you are not useful and I cannot bear being around you any longer.
Stone me why can't you see
You're a no one nowhere washed up baby
Who'd look better dead
Your tongue is far too long
I don't like the way it sucks and
Slurs upon my every word
You are worthless, going nowhere in life and would be better off dead. Your speech is too long and excessive, and it affects my reputation.
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd
Like
Despite everything, I am the one who will survive and overcome. I cannot bring myself to hate you as much as I would like to.
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself
To hate you as I'd
Like
Despite everything, I am the one who will survive and overcome. I cannot bring myself to hate you as much as I would like to.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: IAN GEORGE BROWN, JOHN SQUIRE
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Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Down down, you bring me down
I hear you knocking down my door and I can't sleep at night
Your face, it has no place
No room for you inside my house I need to be alone
[Chorus]
Don't waste your words
I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been
Or what you plan to do
[Verse 2]
Turn turn, I wish you'd learn
There's a time and place for everything, I've got to get it through
Cut loose, 'cause you're no use
I couldn't stand another second in your company
[Chorus]
Don't waste your words
I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been
Or what you plan to do
[Verse 3]
Stone me, why can't you see
You're a no-one nowhere washed up baby who'd look better dead?
Your tongue is far too long
I don't like the way it sucks and slurps upon my every word
[Chorus]
Don't waste your words
I don't need anything from you
I don't care where you've been
Or what you plan to do
[Post-Chorus]
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like
I am the resurrection and I am the life
I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like
[Instrumental Outro]
@HarryHopkins-fv3li
This song was the motivation I needed to quit a long term heroin addiction,now four year clean,thanks boys.
@adinocc2042
That's awesome! Good on you!
It is a remarkably powerful song.
@rjones2401
Respect to you! a man that conquers himself is stronger than a general that conquers a city
@HarryHopkins-fv3li
thanks rjones,nice of you to say ,when some people look down at us its them who need educating,experience is everything,
@HarryHopkins-fv3li
thanks adinocc , it was very nice of you to say, respect@@adinocc2042
@george22021979
Hang in there brother
@laurencegladwell529
I am 68 ,discovered band through some young lads who would come into the pub where i work ,best band of their era for me
@thegoldenmonkeys146
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@garybalfour3953
Class some find enjoy
@fionamacaulay6289
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