Sunday, March 5, 2023

"Kicking Stones"

Recently, I read about "Kicking Stones" in The Monkees: The Day-by-Day Story (I'm currently in September 1966).  I know it only as a bonus track on the deluxe edition of More of the Monkees.  Last night, I figured out the chords, and while doing so, I noticed the phrase "all alone" in the line "Feelin' dejected and all alone."  I wrote about this before with "I'll Spend My Life with You," but it's applicable here, too:  because both words in "all alone" start with the same sound, there's a sense of the singularity of being alone.