Stone free is ones of the songs in this album which
channels a major theme of the album, and of the era at large. It is about the
pressures of mainstream society and avoiding the toll which it can take on
someones liberty and individuality. In this song in the opening stanza Jimi
exclaims
"Everyday in the week i'm in a different city
If i stay too long people try to pull me down
They talk about me like a dog
Talkin' about the clothes i wear
But they don't realize they're the ones who's square"
In this he immediately draws in an audience of people who have been beat down by the stigmas of society and allows them to feel as if they are not alone. The minority is banned together in this song and with this beginning it allows for them to carry on their own struggles against those who persecute them for their differences. Jimi Hendrix said "All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel." and that he did. He exuded a sense of bravery that manifested in his choosing and not choosing to do something. His songs conveyed his beliefs and this song in particular shows his conviction in those said beliefs.
He "cannot be tied down", and is reaching out to the majority to say that "it's so easy to break". Although he says its easy to break, the song has a sense of continuous movement. He is always moving because the pressures of society are catching up to him. This leads me to believe that he did not have an easy time always staying true to himself but because he knows it is worth it he picks up and moves again. He stays stone free so that he can "ride the breeze" and "stay free". By ride the breeze, he is referring to following his whims, doing what he pleases - whether that entails illegal actions i do not know but whatever it was it was potentially unacceptable in normal society.
Jimi liked to move around. His lifestyle was about innovation, and the style of this song it truly innovative. His raw talent and strong will combined allowed his song to go beyond being societal dissent, it allows him to in a way, rise above society. Being stone free there is nothing holding him down but the ordinary person is weighted to the ground. The freedom to be subject to your own emotions and not a ruling power is the utopia which Hendrix is pointing towards, but there is a sense of not being their yet - even himself - in the song also. The journey does not end when the song does, it begins.
The tone of the song is friendly yet resolute. He refers to the listener as "baby" and speaks in a relaxed way, as well as reaching out to the listener to experience it for them self. He truly believes in his music as a way of portraying his vision. So become stone free, be who you are and follow your own intuition to the ends of the earth. There is no need for him to change for other people and therefore he treats his audience as a whole, no hierarchy and no culprits and idols. He is saying that society has it all wrong and the way to live is in a loving and free atmosphere.
"Everyday in the week i'm in a different city
If i stay too long people try to pull me down
They talk about me like a dog
Talkin' about the clothes i wear
But they don't realize they're the ones who's square"
In this he immediately draws in an audience of people who have been beat down by the stigmas of society and allows them to feel as if they are not alone. The minority is banned together in this song and with this beginning it allows for them to carry on their own struggles against those who persecute them for their differences. Jimi Hendrix said "All I'm gonna do is just go on and do what I feel." and that he did. He exuded a sense of bravery that manifested in his choosing and not choosing to do something. His songs conveyed his beliefs and this song in particular shows his conviction in those said beliefs.
He "cannot be tied down", and is reaching out to the majority to say that "it's so easy to break". Although he says its easy to break, the song has a sense of continuous movement. He is always moving because the pressures of society are catching up to him. This leads me to believe that he did not have an easy time always staying true to himself but because he knows it is worth it he picks up and moves again. He stays stone free so that he can "ride the breeze" and "stay free". By ride the breeze, he is referring to following his whims, doing what he pleases - whether that entails illegal actions i do not know but whatever it was it was potentially unacceptable in normal society.
Jimi liked to move around. His lifestyle was about innovation, and the style of this song it truly innovative. His raw talent and strong will combined allowed his song to go beyond being societal dissent, it allows him to in a way, rise above society. Being stone free there is nothing holding him down but the ordinary person is weighted to the ground. The freedom to be subject to your own emotions and not a ruling power is the utopia which Hendrix is pointing towards, but there is a sense of not being their yet - even himself - in the song also. The journey does not end when the song does, it begins.
The tone of the song is friendly yet resolute. He refers to the listener as "baby" and speaks in a relaxed way, as well as reaching out to the listener to experience it for them self. He truly believes in his music as a way of portraying his vision. So become stone free, be who you are and follow your own intuition to the ends of the earth. There is no need for him to change for other people and therefore he treats his audience as a whole, no hierarchy and no culprits and idols. He is saying that society has it all wrong and the way to live is in a loving and free atmosphere.
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