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.
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Studio albums
The Stone Roses (1989)
Second Coming (1994)
Standing Here
The Stone Roses Lyrics
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A hundred miles from home
I can see the light surrounds me
I want you to show me round
I'm standing here
I really don't think you could know
That I'm in heaven when you smile
I'm swinging from a tree
I can touch but you can't feel me
You hear me as you sleep
I'm standing here
I really don't think you could know
That I'm in heaven when you smile
And I'm everywhere
I really don't think you could know
That I'm in heaven when you smile
But I don't think you think like I do
No matter how how hard I try
I always thought I'd have the answer
Let me tell you what I've got
I'm looking through your window
I might just have the key
Over me my free-fall baby
You hear me as you speak
I'm standing here
I really don't think you could know
That I'm in heaven when you smile
I'm standing here
I really don't think you could know
That I'm in heaven when you smile
But I'm everywhere
I really don't think you could know
That I'm in heaven when you smile
But I don't think you think like I do
No matter how how hard I try
I always thought I had the answers
Let me tell you what I've got
Oh let it rot I made them stop
I could park a juggernaut in your mouth
And I can feel a hurricane when you shout
I should be safe forever in your arms
I should be safe forever in your arms
I could park a juggernaut in your mouth?
And I can feel a hurricane when you shout
I should be safe forever in your arms
I should be safe forever in your arms
“Standing Here” by The Stone Roses is a song about longing for love and affection from someone who seems out of reach. The song begins with the singer standing on a hilltop, far from home, and asking for someone to show him around. He is longing for companionship, and he feels as though the light surrounding him is a metaphor for the light that love brings into his life.
Later in the song, the singer refers to himself as a ghost-like figure, capable of being in places where he is not, and of being heard but not seen. This could be interpreted as his feelings of loneliness and disconnection, as he feels as though he is drifting through the city and swinging from a tree, but is ultimately out of reach of the person he is singing to.
The final verse of the song features the singer looking through the window of the person he is longing for, and suggesting that he has the key to her heart. The chorus repeats this idea that he feels joy and elation when she smiles, but he fears that his feelings are unrequited.
Overall, “Standing Here” is a song about the universal need for human connection, and about the frustration and pain that can come with unrequited love.
Line by Line Meaning
I'm standing on a hilltop
I am at a high point, far from my home.
A hundred miles from home
I am very far from my true residence.
I can see the light surrounds me
The brightness of the world is comforting to me.
I want you to show me round
I would like you to guide me around this place.
I'm standing here
I am present in this moment.
I really don't think you could know
I doubt that you understand how I am feeling.
That I'm in heaven when you smile
Your smile brings me great joy and happiness.
I'm drifting through the city
I am aimlessly wandering through the urban landscape.
I'm swinging from a tree
I am carefree and uninhibited.
I can touch but you can't feel me
I am present, but it feels like you cannot sense my presence.
You hear me as you sleep
You are not consciously aware of me, but I am present in your subconscious.
And I'm everywhere
My presence can be felt all around, in every place.
But I don't think you think like I do
I don't believe that your thoughts and feelings align with mine.
No matter how how hard I try
My efforts to connect with you seem to be in vain.
I always thought I had the answers
I used to believe that I knew what was best and had all the solutions.
Let me tell you what I've got
Allow me to share my perspective with you.
I'm looking through your window
I am observing you from the outside, figuratively or literally.
I might just have the key
It's possible that I hold the solution to a problem or the answer to a question.
Over me my free-fall baby
I am open and vulnerable to you, my love.
But I'm everywhere
I am present in every moment, even if it's not discernible at first glance.
Oh let it rot I made them stop
I've stopped trying to control or maintain certain things, and I'm okay with letting them decay or fall apart.
I could park a juggernaut in your mouth
I have the power to overwhelm and silence you.
And I can feel a hurricane when you shout
Your anger or intensity emits a powerful force.
I should be safe forever in your arms
Being close to you brings me a deep sense of security and protection.
I should be safe forever in your arms
Being close to you brings me a deep sense of security and protection.
Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: IAN GEORGE BROWN, JOHN SQUIRE
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This song is a blissful listening experience every single time, a true work of art
Lee Morson
If you love the Roses then you know this is an absolute gem
Nikárðyn
This feels just like a blueprint for Oasis musically. Rock and Roll Star, Cloudburst, Slide Away, Columbia, Married With Children, Listen Up. Oasis practically based themselves on this song. It's like Definitely Maybe entirely revolves around this song. It just shows how one b-side can create something like the phenomenon that is Oasis. Baggy for life, man. Peace ☮️
Matthew J Douglas
Mercia man here Tamworth posse
Nikárðyn
@Matthew J Douglas Greetings from Cov, fellow Mercian with excellent music taste! Big up the capital, Tammy! 💙💛
Danny zuko
Hahaha 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I love your thinking, it makes sense ,it’s like that itch I’ve had all my life and you have just scratched it mate ..Thank you
Ben Hawksworth
Yh imo the opening sounds similar to stand by me.
jungastein
just listening to the stone roses and wanted to say something about the stone roses starting with the name The Stone Roses! So deep, at the core of life. I've never heard anyone speak about this band in the terms that make SR most appeal to me; that is, the alchemical nature of the music and lyrics. there is something so elemental, cthonic, archetypal in there. these songs came by way of Genius. Something early Yeatsian about them, even eternal. So impersonal and yet suffused with an intimate light, light out of the eternal night, which is a stone rose.... Profound. The sugary smacking sweetness all up in the eponymous album and Turns To Stone—high art in a cellophane wrapper.
Paul Wilde
The vast majority of the song is comparitively ordinary - it only has a leaden swagger compared to What the world is waiting for. Then the ending- but it's been cut off here! This song is really over 5 minutes long. The ending 'I could park a juggernaut in your mouth, And I can feel a hurricane when you shout I should be safe forever in your arms I should be safe forever in your arms (repeated)' is the most beautiful thing that The Stone Roses have done. It's Romeo and Juliet stuff.
I am the walrus Cuckoo kachoo
My favourite ever roses song. That end part is hauntingly beautiful. The Stone Roses were the forefront of the indie music of the 90's