Stone-cold
What is the meaning of Stone Free? It's a title of a song, but have no idea, what this means.
I am familiar with the song as sung by Mr. Jimi.
Meaning No. 2 (from Merriam-Webster). Completely free.
Main Entry: 4 stone
Function: adjective
1 : of, relating to, or made of stone
2 : ABSOLUTE, UTTER Pure stone craziness -- Edwin Shrake.(Recorded by Jimi Hendrix.)
Every day 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 realise they're the ones who's square
Hey!
And that's why
You can't hold me down
I don't want to be down
I gotta move
HeyStone free - do what I please
Stone free - to ride the breeze
Stone free - I can't stay
I got to got to got to get awayIf my memory serves me well, I thought it was "talk about me, like a DOLL, talk about the clothes I wear" which makes better sense.
Anybody know which it is?
I'll give my CD a listen and report back.
In one of life's little coincidences, I had Jimi Hendrix's "Smash Hits" on my CD player. I listened as close as I could a couple of times and I can't tell if it's doll or dog. He drops the last letter.
It sounds a very modern usage. Is it derived from stone-cold, as in stone-cold sober, I wonder?
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Stone´-cold` a. 1. Cold as a stone. Stone-cold without, within burnt with love's flame. Fairfax.
WordNet Dictionary
Adj. 1. stone-cold - completely cold; "by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold"