Lovely disguise
Read between the lines
You rock the magic plane with no abbreviation
Three, four
You sell what you bought
And there ain't no magic pen
To get back what you lost

I like it when we talk about love
I like it when we talk about love
You always were my favorite drug
Even when we used to take drugs

Even when we used to take
Even when we used to take
Even when we used to take
Even when we used to take

Penguins don't fly
Crocodile Sunday smile
Really love to fish
But don't like superficial people
Shoe store
Heard it all before
From pearly whites to pearly gates
What do we have to argue 'bout?

I like it when we talk about love
I like it when we talk about love
You always were my favorite drug
Even when we used to take drugs

Even when we used to take
Even when we used to take
Even when we used to take
Even when we used to take

Leave me all alone before
Get out the way
Never did what she was told
Get out the way
Seems to play at time of war
Get out the way
Less is big and listens more
Get out the way

Lovely disguise
Read between the lines
You rock the magic plane with no abbreviation
Three, four
You sell what you bought
And there ain't no magic pen
To get back what you lost

I like it when we talk about love
I like it when we talk about love
You always were my favorite drug
Even when we used to take drugs

Even when we used to take
Used to take
Even when we used to take
T-t-take
Even when we used to take
Used to take
Even when we used to take
T-t-take
Used to take


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Between the Lines Lyrics as written by Robert Emile Deleo Dean Deleo

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  • +2
    General Comment

    The song refers to Weiland's past history of drug use in the chorus. The vocalist told MTV News: "The verse is sort of an 'I Am The Walrus' kind of thing, where it's a bunch of stuff that phonetically sounds good. And then you get to the meat of the idea in the chorus... it's a reference to my ex. It's a real rock-and-roll song that has our own individuality."

    interstateplushsongon June 14, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    nirvana sucks... thats all i wanted to say

    skittles66on June 13, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    the girl in the music video is so hot... damn the things i would do to her ass...

    7cagedtigerson June 14, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    the first verse is insane!!

    Danvers546on June 17, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    oh and btw...

    this song and come as you are by nirvana are what i call bullshit songs.. meaning i scream BULLSHIT during certain parts of both songs

    STP Between the Lines "even when we used to take drugs" - Weiland BULLSHIT!!

    Nirvana - Come as you Are "No i dont have a gun" - Cobain BULLSHIT!!

    cornellvsliddellon June 21, 2010   Link
  • +1
    My Interpretation

    For me this song is related in some way to "Interstate Love Song", seems like Interstate was about rupture and moving on; and "Between the Lines" about return with the girl and starting over

    Maverick2099on October 15, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    you guys wanna know the meaning to "between the lines"??

    ok here it is..

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    lamerica555on November 05, 2010   Link
  • +1
    General Comment

    woooo this song is up for a grammy! would be great to see STP win another grammy!

    dweter99on December 09, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    Its actually a pretty good song, you cant compare it to their past works and say its crap STP are moving forward, if you're looking for another plush than yeah you're gonna be disappointed. The lyrics are also wrong

    stpfan31on March 31, 2010   Link
  • 0
    General Comment

    I don't get this site... you say feel free to fix the lyrics, but I don't see any way how. I just want to switch out a few apostrophes since "ain't" looks like ain[symbol]t, which is so annoying.

    anyway sweet song, and yeah, obviously it's not like Core... it's supposed to be 60s-ish with good production value. I like it, at any rate.

    keraunoscopiaon April 06, 2010   Link

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