| Stone Temple Pilots – Pretty Penny Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's gotta be about a drug overdose - by a mother. Pearl is slang for cocaine or heroin. "Pretty Penny" means something - and in this case, someone - of value. I think it's pretty straightforward. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Hickory Dichotomy Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Some lyrics had me thinking of Mary's book, while others brought the media in general to mind. In an interview, Scott said it was about the media (probably to avoid trashing Mary). A line like "You're telling my story but you don't know my name" is open to all kinds of interpretations. Maybe he's a different man in his own mind since Mary left him. Maybe it's about the publishers who offered Mary the deal, and know hardly anything about Scott. I'd wager it has something to do with Mary, as do most of the songs on the album, and on Shangri-La Dee Da. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Hazy Daze Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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This song makes me think of Mary's book "Fall to Pieces," especially the chorus. "How much did you get for selling out my name/Still won't forget those hazy days." I don't think it has anything to do with his dad. I think it's about feeling exploited by the book. |
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| Scott Weiland – Where's The Man Lyrics | 15 years ago |
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It's gotta be about getting another drug deal and lying to your significant other about where you're going. So goes my interpretation. |
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| Velvet Revolver – Loving The Alien Lyrics | 15 years ago |
| Aliens = sobriety. | |
| Aerosmith – Back In The Saddle Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Couldn't help but think it's about heroin or cocaine. "She crazy horse saloon" - Horse = heroin. "No tongue's drier than mine" - dry mouth as a side effect when the body "needs" it. Perhaps it's about sex as well. I don't know, maybe one or the other. Just going with my imagination. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Adhesive Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's about how superstardom and showbiz cause the messages in the music to get lost and replaced with blind idolatry. All the references to lights and superheroes spell that out for me, as well as the biggest wound being hidden. I believe Scott is walking us through an imaginary death. "Can't keep the submarining / Can't keep the light from fading" - Scott knows he isn't going to stay alive forever, and perhaps he feels as though he is drowning as a result of his decisions. "Ain't the same for you and me / Comatose commodity the superheroes dyin' / All the children cryin' / Sell more records if I'm dead..." - Can't help but think of Cobain's death and the "martyrdom" that came along with it. Maybe Scott is also saying that the record company doesn't care about his well-being, only that sales are the bottom line. It also seems like the word "Purple" is thrown around at every convenient moment. I have to wonder if Scott felt as though his heavily personal lyrics were overlooked on that album, and all some cared about was how well the Pearl Jam comparisans would stand the test of time. |
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| Talk Show – Hello Hello Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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No comments on their biggest hit, so to speak. I think it's pretty straightforward - about a woman who lives a double life. Looks good on the outside, but someone you would regret getting to know. I'm guessing it's about an ex-girlfriend. "Hello Hello" is a curious title, given the verses. Perhaps it symbolizes the difficulty of getting through to someone. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Ride The Cliche Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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On second thought, it may very well be about the press, and how it became a cliche in a sense to compare STP to Pearl Jam and the other acts that they were accused of cashing in on. Lyrics in particular that may very well support this theory: Just because you're so cliched / It don't mean you won't get paid... Barely know you know my name / Trip the witch and ride the shame... She no wait, but she know me... |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Sour Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Definately about Janine, Scott's first wife. I think the "Hey, what are you lookin' at?" is a call for her attention, but it can also be directed at onlookers. "What are you lookin' at, this don't concern you!" |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Dumb Love Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Brilliant, I completely agree. | |
| Stone Temple Pilots – Days Of The Week Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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According to Wikipedia, it was written for Sheryl Crow. Not hard to believe. They do a nice live version of this with Dean on the acoustic guitar. It's up on YouTube. I think you have to hear that version a few times to really appreciate it. I admittedly didn't care for it much until I heard that version. Anyways, the song meaning. It's about how Scott's drug and alcohol abuse had taken its toll on yet another marriage. I believe he became a lot more determined to get cleaned up when he got together with Mary. As for change in bands. You have to have it. PURPLE was plenty different from CORE. New styles were brought into the mix, and the lyrics became a lot more personal. None of the STP albums would be so unique if fans didn't allow them to flirt with a new approach. Plenty of their material on SHANGRI-LA DEE DA sounds as though it could have been from the earlier days, especially early in the album. STP is still great because they are brave enough to make every album totally different. There is so much more depth beneath the surface in Scott and the guys than plain old grunge. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Lounge Fly Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I agree with MJWhit518. It's about using his wife for booze, etc. lying about it, and having regrets about how he's been living his life on the road. "My bottle's empty but you always refuel me" - I'd like to make a parallel between this and "I Got You." "I Got You" is basically a song about how he doesn't need dope as long as he can find love. This song seems to have the same message somewhere in between the lines. "It's ok, it's ok, ok relieve me" - I translate it as "I'm fine. Okay, not really. Give me a shot or a hit of something." "Pins in me, pins in me, in me you kill me" - Best guess: heroin. |
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| Alice in Chains – Heaven Beside You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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It's about the love of Jerry's life, and how he couldn't stay faithful to her, and they broke up. "Heaven beside you" - The most beautiful girl in the world, where your heart belongs. "Hell within" - The agony you caused yourself, and knowing that you blew your chance. Such an amazing song. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Seven Caged Tigers Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm pretty sure it's about boredom and confusion. The verses are pretty tangled as far as the themes go, but I can picture in my head a man bitterly unamused and unexcited about the day going by. So he buys dirty magazines and gets hooked on drugs and alcohol, and somewhere through a course of self-gratification, feels more lost than ever. The chorus is pretty clear-cut, anyways. He feels as though he is losing his purpose in life by the day, and the bottle keeps calling his name, among other things. He's living only to feed his addictions. While TINY MUSIC is a great album, I also consider it a point in Scott's life where he didn't seem to care about sobering up, unlike PURPLE, NO. 4, AND SHANGRI-LA DEE DA. Or so the lyrics seem to reflect that. Maybe it's just a point he reached where he felt particularly helpless and enslaved to his vices. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Ride The Cliche Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Intake purge" - at least this line is about dope. In fact, I think the entire song is personifying drugs. "Trip the witch..." - To go tripping, to use drugs. "Hold me closer, let me go..." - Probably acid in particular. Scott said "Trippin'..." was about a bad acid trip and the chorus is nearly identical in this song. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Coma Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I believe this to be another one about Mary, especially the first part. "Tar and feathers" = euphemism for drugs and alcohol, and self-destructive behavior. "High road" - either drugged up lifestyle or just judgment and lectures in general. "You left your guru out there hangin'" = feeling alienated because she won't take his advise. "It's just a game but no one's playin'" - A relationship gone into a serious stage. "Don't stay" - Don't keep yourself trapped. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Hello, It's Late Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I believe Scott told Rolling Stone that this was left over from the Purple era until the band figured out how to make the song work. It wouldn't suprise me if the lyrics were altered to fit in with his life with Mary. In fact, I would assume they were. "Nothing matters again..." - Flashback to "Nothing seems to matter, really" from "Black Again." Interesting how Scott described his love life with his first ex-wife as a rollercoaster on "And So I Know" and "Sour Girl", and now, he's talking about a merry go-round. I suppose it's a euphemism about time going by too slow, and the "music" being a shouting match. And a self-realization, holy crap, we're married. And he didn't expect "the game" - the relationship - to last. Or, perhaps, the game means mind game. I also accept the connection about the media and how they have portrayed Scott. His fourth possession charge comes to mind, as does the domestic violence charge. Evidently, Mary lied about the latter, but it gave the media an excuse to attack Scott. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Black Again Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Probably my favorite song on Shangrr-La Dee Da. It's gotta be about Mary, and how Scott reached out to her in the midst of all of her personal problems. Like Scott, she was bipolar and addicted to drugs and alcohol. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Army Ants Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"Time, time is not on my side / cause the way I am" - Parallels "Shorter lived and longer gone" from "Pretty Penny", so I'm going with the theory that Weiland is admitting that his lifestyle is self-destructive. "Gotta gotta now gotta find the reason why / a woman ain't a man" - Along the lines of saying either all women are the same or that they make you feel ashamed of yourself by not being upfront, or that they just treat you much different than men do. "You don't look but you kick me / you can't feel but you hit me" - How men and women hurt each other without even thinking about it. In a word, insensitivity. "You can't live with the way I pray" - Religious conflict in a relationship. "Fall in those single file lines / like army ants" - Two possible theories come to mind. First, back to the "women are all the same theme." Or secondly, living the rock n' roll lifesstyle and joining the herds of junkies because the drugs are available and everyone else is doing it. I can see how it can also be a reference to cocaine, but I think the song touches on a number of themes, not just one. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Sin Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I believe this is about Scott Weiland's alcoholism. By his own admission, he was an alcoholic before his days in STP. | |
| Pearl Jam – Just Breathe Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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This song is so similar to Larry Norman's "I Hope I'll See You In Heaven." Comparison: As though youth were my invention, as though love lay undefined, To stay free was my intention, to stay young and unconfined. And so I held my pride above you, oh, yes, what a fool was I, Holding back those words "I love you," and letting out that word goodbye. I was wrong to let you go I was a child and I did not know About the love that we both could have given And now you've gone so far away, I hope I'll see you again someday But if I don't, I hope I'll see you in heaven. What a coincidence. The difference, as I see it, is that "Just Breathe" is narrarated at the scene of a break up, whereas "I Hope I'll See You In Heaven" is more reminiscent of the past. |
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| Alice in Chains – Nutshell Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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So self-explanatory. As direct as AIC gets. "We chase misprinted lies, We face the path of time" - The band staying together and dealing with the press. "And yet I fight this battle all alone..." - Layne's very personal struggle with drug addiction. "My gift of self is raped, my privacy is raked..." - The rest of the song deals with privacy, and how you want to be left alone and treated as normal as possible. |
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| Alice in Chains – Shame In You Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"When I waken, and I'm achin', time for sleepin, yeah" - Waking up craving for a heroin hit, but knowing the right thing to do is to go back to bed. "When I'm sayin time to go and, I've been hurtin, yeah" - Wanting to give in. "When I'm layin, I'm still tryin, concentrating on dyin', yeah" - Trying to stay sober in spite of the unbearable pain. "You're right as rain, but you're all to blame" - A shot at the press for cashing in on Layne's problem. "No one made you feel any hurt, yeah" - It doesn't hurt you, it hurts me. "Body's movin, only provin, no one needs to move" - Giving in, only to show that nobody should do addictive drugs in the first place. "Still believin, yet mistaken, all God's children, yeah" - Some kind of religious statement. Either he believes but with some doubt in his heart that God will help him, or it's about someone else's belief. A difficult verse to sum up. "And I must say, I was stupid, selfishly she consumed, yeah" - A shot at the consumer who buys into the rumors and won't respect Layne's privacy. |
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| Mad Season – River of Deceit Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"I could either burn" - Staley said in his own words that he doesn't believe in damnation, but he may be referring to this prophet he has in mind about it. "Or cut off my pride, and buy some time" - Get off the drugs, live longer. "A head full of lies is the weight, tied to my waist" - His body and mind tell him he needs the drugs. |
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| Mad Season – Wake Up Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Used to think it was about Jerry Cantrell until I paid closer attention to the lyrics. "The leaves to rake up" - About paying for his prior use. |
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| Mad Season – I Don't Know Anything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Can't say who or what the reliever is, but it's about doing something against your conscience. | |
| Mad Season – I Don't Know Anything Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about an observation that the world is full of hatred, and there's no way to fit in without losing your true self. Think about who Layne was, other than the drug addiction. He was a guy who liked to have fun, and a guy who spoke from his heart. He's asking, "Is there a good reason for all the hatred that I'm not aware of?" So goes my take. |
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| Mad Season – Lifeless Dead Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think HB89 is right on the money. Part of Layne "died" when he separated from Demri. I don't know their entire story, but I know enough from the RS interview that they broke up before or around Tripod. According to the RS article on Layne's death, some insist that he gave up his fight with heroin once Demri died. |
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| Alice in Chains – Head Creeps Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'll take a whack at this... "Time to call the doggies off, Tired of the shadowin'" The "doggies" are the press, and they only seem to care about a small portion of Layne's life (drugs and stupid questions about the band). "Slide me to the side again, Slapped in the face again" He feels isolated and attacked with all the false rumors that have gone on. "No more time, Just one more time" Doesn't have to be a reference to his addiction (but maybe it is). It could be him saying "No more time" to the press, with them replying "Just one more time" back to him. Your redundancy stains Tired of infantile claims Like puppets on a string Untangle you from me He's tired of lies about his condition, and it has "stained" the band's image. He wants "untangled" - broken free from the public eye. |
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| Pearl Jam – Cropduster Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Theory... It's a 9/11 song about losing a father and suddenly realizing that the world doesn't revolve around you. The "Big Lie" is that you are at the center of the universe, and something "hits your eyes", like 9/11, on TV, in the paper, etc. I used to think it was about fame ("I was the fool because I thought the world... turns out the world thought me") or orthodox religion ("Everyone is practicing, this world's an accident..."). They all seem viable, and I wouldn't dismiss the idea that it has multiple meanings. |
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| Pearl Jam – Evacuation Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it's about the country going through a crisis with a bad leader. The end gives it away for me, anyways. There was a solemn man. Watched his twilight disappear. In the sand. Altered by a falling eagle. A warning sign. Sign. He sensed that worry could be strength with a plan he said, "Time for evacuation." He's using people's fears to portray himself as a leader. Kind of crazy how it foretold 9/11 in a way. I have to wonder why they didn't play it much after the Binaural Tour. It seems fit for the times. |
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| Scott Weiland – Missing Cleveland Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I think it's about how having a wife and children can spin your life out of your control, and how Scott misses the single life (the bars, especially) and not having such a huge responsibility. | |
| Scott Weiland – Arch Angel Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Sounds like it's about memories of his brother, and how he was supposed to be a brother and a father before his life was cut short. | |
| Scott Weiland – Desperation #5 Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Your guess is as good as mine, but I think it has to do with his then wife, and he is asking her to "carry his watter" and accept his baggage. She took "a dive" into his life, and it was "dirty water, [a] muddy ditch." Good song. |
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| Alice in Chains – Brush Away Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I think it could either be about addiction or celebrity obsession. In Layne's case, the two were often interrelated. He wants to get away from the rumor mill, or he wants isolation. Either one would make sense, I think. |
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| Alice in Chains – Sludge Factory Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A tough one to interpret, I think. The last part has got to be about Demri, though. "Now the body of one soul I adore wants to die..." The band gurgling out a date is a new way of looking at it for me. I had a feeling it also had something to do with Demri. ("Won't live past 25", "Kindly gurgle out a date for me." I think the song is also about how Layne would react to the death of Demri. He went on a long hiatus after she died. ("20 hours won't print my picture milk carton size") I think part of it is a sarcastic play about the pressure to deliver as well: There's no pressure besides brilliance let's say by day 9 (have it done soon) Endless corporate ignorance lets me control time (artistic freedom uncompromised) I think by repeating "By the way" over and over again is a way of saying there are a lot of strings attached. |
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| Alice in Chains – So Close Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song was written about having nothing to write about. "Man I nearly snapped my twig" - a good satirical line. I think it has something to do with needing inspiration in order to live up to your expectations. |
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| Alice in Chains – We Die Young Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| Drugs and gangs. | |
| Alice in Chains – Got Me Wrong Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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In the liner notes of 1999's Music Bank box set collection, guitarist Jerry Cantrell said of the song: "That's about a girl I was dating in between one of the times I broke up with my true love. A lot of times you'll tell someone how you don't want to be in a relationship and why, and what kind of person you are, and they hear all that but think that they can change you. That's what the song's about, getting me wrong and the different ways that men and women see each other." I also see the song as a conversation between a man who doesn't want to commit, and a woman who has strong feelings for him and thinks that he'll change for her when he sees how strong she feels about a potential relationship. For example: Man: As of now I bet you got me wrong. (I don't want to commit) So unsure we reach for something strong. Woman: I haven't felt like this in so long... Man: Wrong, in a sense too far gone from love. (I don't love you, it was all about lust) You can also apply that to the verses as well. |
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| Alice in Chains – God Am Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I'm thinking "Bleed the Freak" meets "Angry Chair." Layne sees God as an all-powerful being who is doing little to nothing to help him, and feels that if he had the power of God, he would act differently. He's in the process of seeing lives ruined around him, and his own life continuing to fall apart in spite of rehab and crying for help. Instead of helping mankind, God is absorbing worship to the point of distraction, to Layne. I think to a fair extent, the anger is justifiable, even to the most religious among us. Why does God allow X, Y, and Z to happen? |
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| Alice in Chains – Check My Brain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"We're getting ready to do our second album, and we're looking at some studios in California. Not in Los Angeles. I don't like that town. Too decadent, and it's slimy. I kinda attract people that I don't want to attract - drug fiends, scenesters - and it freaks me out. We're thinking of somewhere in Sausalito." - Layne Staley |
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| Alice in Chains – Check My Brain Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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"So I found myself in the sun, oh yeah A hell of a place to end a run, oh yeah" That's an awesome way to put it, if you think about it. The humor in this song is that Layne expressed contempt for LA. I have to wonder if that has anything to do with Cantrell saying "Check my brain, this isn't so bad." (paraphrasing) It's about Jerry moving to LA. |
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| Alice in Chains – Frogs Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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There are so many possibilities that come to mind... I. A bad acid trip. A lot of drug references about hallucinogins. II. The "yang" of "No Excuses," a song about a soured friendship. "No Excuses," in my opinion, was also about putting up with a friend who struggles with substance abuse. "Frogs" may deal with "friends" who turned their backs on Layne. III. "Frogs" is also a slang insult that people have been calling each other for centuries. You think someone is your friend, but really, they're "frogs." Kind of a darker, slower version of "Again." IV. While "Sludge Factory" may be taken as a song about Demri's soon-to-be death and Layne's reaction to it ("Milk carton size"), and "Grind" plays on media rumors about Layne's condition, "Frogs" may as well be a serious address on it. At the end of the song, he is talking about how young he is, and how his "expiration date" is coming up. "Off the wall I scrape" brings back the song "Dirt" (I want you to scrape me from the walls and go crazy like you made me"). Whatever Layne and Jerry meant by that line is revisited. I believe undoubtedly that it has to do with self-destruction, and in Layne's case, drug abuse. V. Layne also had five friends die in the two year period prior to his interview with Rolling Stone magazine. Considering that Layne's struggle was heroin, not hallucinogens, it's possible that the song isn't entirely about him. VI. Some users may refer to their drugs as "friends," and they are "so wrongfully abused." VII. A great possibility is that the song has multiple meanings. In Layne's RS interview, he said none of the Tripod songs have any deep meaning (really?). but they're about four months of being human. |
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| Alice in Chains – No Excuses Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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The song is about friendship and addiction. Jerry wrote it about his friendship with Layne, but obviously, there are references to drug abuse in it. "I bleed for you" among other similar verses detail the passion and sacrifice that Cantrell is expressing, and that he will defend Layne becuase he understands the hardships of addiiction. "Leave cold trade for warm sunshine" is about giving in to the addiction, as is the chorus. When an addict doesn't attend to his "medicine," a cold feeling "hits him up." It's as though the song is a conversation between Layne and Jerry. |
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| Stone Temple Pilots – Down Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Considering that Scott was in the process of a divorce, and considering that "Sour Girl" was written in the same session on the same day, I think it's fair to draw a parallel. This song is almost a heavy version of "Sour Girl" if you think about it... Pleased to meet you (She was a sour girl the day that she met me) Nice to know me (She was a happy girl the day that she left me) But instead of reminiscing about a love gone bad, he's looking forward to his next relationship with his "sunday girl." I doubt this one is about drugs. "No Way Out" and "Big Empty" are better examples of drug songs. |
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| Pearl Jam – Deep Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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Sounds like a story of a murder-rapist and his victim. I love PJ's work from start to finish, but Ten wails the most when it comes to intense vocal performances and emotionally complex compositions. |
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| Pearl Jam – U Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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This should have been kept on the album, whichever one it was. But you know Pearl Jam, they don't want to be TOO accessible. One of the best Lost Dogs. It sounds great live. I think Eddie likes to have more meaning in his songs, nowadays. |
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| Pearl Jam – Around the Bend Lyrics | 17 years ago |
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I think you could interpret as a "father and son are both in jail" song, although these lyrics kind of contradict the interpretation: I hold your head deep in my arms. My fingertips they close your eyes. |
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| Pearl Jam – Love Boat Captain Lyrics | 17 years ago |
| This is basically a "Why did God allow this to happen" song about the Roskilde incident, so far as I can tell. Probably the best song on Riot Act, along with "I Am Mine" and "Save You." | |
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