So, One More Stone is fundamentally a song about heartbreak. Will heartbreak ever go out of style? Probably not as long as people are still falling in love. It’s about the sort of thunk of inevitability that some relationships have, when you just have to chalk it up to experience or disillusionment. This is one of the more personal songs I’ve ever written, which is probably telling you too much already. It’s also, I think, the only song I’ve written that sometimes makes me cry when I sing it. So, like, it’s probably not the song that you want to play if you’re looking to pep yourself up. But if you’re sad and you want to wallow a little bit, I think you’ve found a winner.

I remember sitting out on my back porch when I wrote this. It was fall, and I had my guitar, and finally worked out that chorus which I had been humming for weeks. I had that central image of the wishing well in my head, but I didn’t know how to begin the song. So then I looked around at my backyard, where trees were doing their best to hang on to those last orange leaves, but the angle of the sun and the chill in the air meant that you couldn’t ignore the inevitability of change. So that’s when I came up with, “The leaves have fallen though the summer tried.” We hang on to hope as long as we can, but the world turns around us regardless.

Matt and Stephanie play absolutely beautifully on this, and we we sing it I’m always so glad when Matt’s harmony kicks in on the second chorus. Take a listen to One More Stone. We hope that you enjoy it!