Gather Stones: a slow-burning indie rock lament that simmers with emotional gravity and quiet desperation. With a brooding groove and flashes of melodic chaos, the track captures the tension of relationships weighed down by time, silence, and everything unspoken. Gritty guitars and off-kilter rhythms pulse beneath vocals that waver between raw vulnerability and angst. 

The chorus - a storm surge. Stop-and-go urgency meets lyrical spirals, mirroring the internal back-and-forth of someone trying to hold on while dragging the weight of the past behind them.

Lyrically poetic and emotionally grounded, “Gather Stones” is for anyone who’s ever tried to make the swim back home with their pockets full, and energy sapped.

Gather Stones

"гитарный футляр может вместить слишком много"

***
May..
with the smell of lilac
filled
the empty room..
your guitar is not in it..
but memory clearly draws sounds
and this smell -
rocked the shadows on
the sunny portal of the floor

where you sang
as if not noticing me
passionately -
and your fingers on the strings mercilessly..

now I'm afraid - not of this silence
Emptiness,
which you left..
took everything from yourself
into a guitar case -
all the sounds and all my memory are there..

I was left with scraps of dreams..
with which - how to cope
- I don't know..
so that the last night does not explode..

we can see each other
only at a distance of a bullet
you will not forgive - for letting go..

the world has become big without you
you said - understand -
in bonds we will not go far
not only from each other
but also together..

yes...
then I
suffocated in this room
from the smell of lilacs..
and
the world without you became..
so big..

***
май..
запахом сирени
наполнил
пустую комнату..
в ней нет твоей гитары..
но память отчетливо звуки рисует
и этот запах —
Тени всколыхнул на
солнечном пола портале

где ты пел
как будто меня не замечая
страстно —
и пальцы об струны нещадно..

теперь боюсь - не этой тишины
а Пустоты
что оставил..
все забрав с собой
в чехле гитары —
там все звуки и вся моя память..

рывки снов мне остались..
с которыми - как обращаться
- не знаю..
Что бы прошым ночь не взрывалась..

нам.
можно видеться
лишь на расстоянии выстрела
ты не простишь меня -
за то, что отпустила..

мир без тебя стал велик
ты говорил - пойми -
в путах мы далеко не уйдём
не только друг от друга
но и вдвоем..

да...
тогда я
задохнулась в этой комнате
от запаха сирени..
и
мир без тебя стал велик..

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Written, performed and recorded by Neli CoKo, 2025, all rights reserved. 
Thank you for listening :)

Original Photography by https://www.pexels.com/de-de/@anna-nekrashevich/

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Enjoy the songs. They were originally written for - and continue to be created for - soundtracking old 8mm family home videos, which were passed down to me. Check them out, if you'd like:

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