Skipping Stones
Updated: 2 days ago
⋆ Genre: Indie Rock
⋆ Producing Credits: Hanroro, the orchard
⋆ Writing/Composing Credits: Hanroro, the orchard, Maiz, Revi
ABOUT/MEANING: “Skipping Stones” uses the image of stones striking water to explore how pain and difficult emotions move through our lives. Like a stone breaking the surface of calm water, moments of hurt create ripples that spread beyond their initial impact, leaving us emotionally shaken even after the moment itself has passed. The song also recognises how easily we can return to those painful feelings ourselves, repeatedly picking up another “stone” even while knowing the disturbance it may cause.
Yet water does not remain disturbed forever. However wide the ripples travel, they gradually weaken until the surface becomes calm again. The song finds comfort in that natural cycle, suggesting that sadness and pain can also be allowed to move through us without defining us permanently. Healing does not require pretending the impact never happened; the water has still been struck, but it is capable of finding stillness again.
Within The Name Chapter: FREEFALL, this reflects the boys’ increasingly grounded understanding of what it means to live within reality. Choosing the real world has exposed them to uncertainty and pain, but “Skipping Stones” no longer treats those experiences as reasons to escape. Instead, difficult emotions become something they can endure and eventually move through, while continuing towards the wider future represented by the ocean.
There is therefore a quiet acceptance at the heart of the song. Rather than promising a life without pain, “Skipping Stones” offers the reassurance that even difficult emotions can change and soften with time, and that we do not necessarily have to endure them alone. “Tomorrow’s me” can embrace the person overwhelmed by today, while trembling hands can be held until the water becomes calm again. Being hurt does not mean remaining within that hurt forever; with time, support and continued movement forward, what once felt overwhelming can eventually be held with greater gentleness and perspective.
LYRICS - ENGLISH TRANSLATION
We love throwing jagged stones
Into calm waters
We know it's a painful time
Yet we still grab another stone
I wonder with what kind of heart you throw yourself
The countless emotions
Are filling up your river
The water that swallowed the scars will become calm someday
And it will gain a wide embrace
Throw away the lingering thoughts forming at your fingertips
Just like always, just like you always have
Just like always, just like you always have
Just like always, just like you always have
Each day, the unsteady heart
Inside, only sinking pains
Yet you and I still breathe
Heading towards the ocean
The water that swallowed the scars will become calm someday
And it will gain a wide embrace
Throw away the lingering thoughts forming at your fingertips
Just like always, just like you always have
So that tomorrow's me
Can embrace the overwhelmed you of today
When it reaches the sparkling waves
I'll hold your two trembling hands
The water that swallowed the scars will become calm someday
And it will gain a wide embrace
Throw away the lingering thoughts forming at your fingertips
Just like always, just like you always have
Just like always, just like you always have
Just like always, just like you always have
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