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She lives in a bungalow
She kills me with rosegarden thorns
She waits for me
My love is unusual
It's painted with roses and thorns
with her I'm complete

She lives by the wall
and waits by the door
She walks in the sun
to me

Visions of Mexico seduce me
It goes to my head so carefully
Memories of candles and incense
And all of these things remember these

She lives by the wall
and waits by the door
She walks in the sun
to me

She comforts me when
the candles blow out
the cake has grown mold
but the memories are sweet
The laughter's all gone
but the memories are mine
The Mexican princess
is out of my life

She lives by the wall
and waits by the door
She walks in the sun
to me
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dsfire On Jun 12, 2001
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Cover art for Atlanta lyrics by Stone Temple Pilots

Tonight my son was playing this song on the guitar and singing it. At first I thought he was singing the Sound of Music tune with a melancholy twist:

"Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens"

After that the melody changes. I'm an old fogey and I don't know the Stone Temple Pilots so I pulled it up on my son't itunes.

I like them.

I agree they sound a little like Jim Morrison and the Doors.

Cover art for Atlanta lyrics by Stone Temple Pilots

It's a neat song, but I wouldn't call it their best. If you want to listen to STP's best, put "Core" on for a spin.

amen

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Purple is their best

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Tiny Music is their best lol

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about his marriage gone to shits

both of his marriages went to shits

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i dont think even scott knows if hes talking about heroin or his first wife... hes just writing abotu the pain he was feeling on that day

Cover art for Atlanta lyrics by Stone Temple Pilots

i remember every 1 jumping on STP for sounding like Pearl Jam, and Scott said, we were aiming foor a Jim Morrison sound..... scott hit it on this one.... gives me the chills

i dont think this song sounds like jim at all

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i think at the start of the song he sounds like neil diamond hahahahahaha.... But I love it anyway. I love when they make songs kinda sound lounge..

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Why is it called Atlanta?

because it was written in atlanta during the making of the purple album... they didnt use it on purple and didnt release it till No. 4

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Incorrect. It was written in Atlanta, however in 1999, while Scott was going through a divorce with his first wife, Janina Castaneda ("the Mexican Princess is out of my life"), not during the making of Purple, which that album was written and subsequently released, in 1995 if I'm not mistaken, shortly after they married in 1994.

On further review, Scott actually married Castaneda, about 3 months after the release of Purple (Sep 94/June 94). Irrelevant, but needed to clarify.

Cover art for Atlanta lyrics by Stone Temple Pilots

To quote Scott is about an interstate love affair. Great song.

Cover art for Atlanta lyrics by Stone Temple Pilots

How were they Pearl Jam rip offs? They were together when Pearl Jam were still Mother Love Bone w/Andy Wood.

EXACTLY.... btw andy wood took better shits than eddie vedder

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eddie vedder was only good in temple of the dog... where he hardly ever sung

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their best song

absolutely... one of their epic songs

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In response to Mikalee's question about the meaning of "But what do the lyrics mean? Why does she live by the wall and waits at the door? What doe sthat mean??!!". I think Scott expresses a parallel meaning of "mexican princess" (his former wife and heroin). First, the drug waits for him as well and lives for him (he needs it to survive, it needs him). It leaves his life when he enters rehab, "the mexican princess is out of my life". Second, this wife, she waits for him to change. On an interview with Howard Stern (check out YouTube), he talks about how beautiful his wife is. She waits for him to change through impossible odds, but eventually "the candles" go out and she decides she can't live with him anymore.