its amazing how far music can come.. 24 years after it released and its one of the most heartfelt songs ive heard
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
She hides because she don't know nothin'
Don't know nothin' anymore
She keeps a funny face, it's locked and bagged
It's just outside the door
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
Lady picture girl
I think them boys don't like her show
Lady picture show
Them boys are gone should just said no
Your wedding present's not so daisy
Picture perfect anymore
Lady funny face
It's locked and bagged, it's just outside the door
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
Let them bleed
Let them bleed
Let them bleed
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom wall
She hides because she don't know nothin'
Don't know nothin' anymore
She keeps a funny face
It's locked and bagged, it's just outside the door
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
Let them bleed
Let them bleed
Let them bleed
She hides behind the bedroom door
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
She hides because she don't know nothin'
Don't know nothin' anymore
She keeps a funny face, it's locked and bagged
It's just outside the door
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
Lady picture girl
I think them boys don't like her show
Lady picture show
Them boys are gone should just said no
Your wedding present's not so daisy
Picture perfect anymore
Lady funny face
It's locked and bagged, it's just outside the door
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
Let them bleed
Let them bleed
Let them bleed
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom wall
She hides because she don't know nothin'
Don't know nothin' anymore
She keeps a funny face
It's locked and bagged, it's just outside the door
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
She doesn't know her name
She doesn't know her face
Let them bleed
Let them bleed
Let them bleed
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There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
I've always loved this song, and I just checked out the video. From that I think it's a throw back to the old peep shows where you would pay a quarter or whatever and get to see a girl strip. In Lady picture show it's about a girl in one of those shows who has lost herself and her identity because of what she's become. Sad thing is she does it because she "don't know nothing anymore" - she's gone too far and can't possibly find her way back to her true identity. Finally the boys are gone -she's older and wedding presents aren't so picture perfect anymore - she's divorced and alone again. She's old because of the time period of the song it is sort of 60s and sounds like something the Beatles might have made, this was the hay day of the girl in Lady Picture Show
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@STPforever <br /> <br /> Recent article says Weiland...(?) Someone STP related claims it's about gang rape.
This song seems to be about a woman who has lost her own identity as the result of a tumultuous relationship. It seems that she may have gotten caught up in an extramarital affair and the shame and secrecy of it all is killing her.
you nailed it! everyone else go home
possibly her husband/bf is having an affair on her but she refuses to leave
i think this is about someone who does something, and doesnt want anyone to find out, but they do and it is bad
a woman who gets exposed it seems
This song sounds different from other songs that STP has written. Not really sure how to describe, but it seems more harmonic than other STP songs.
it was one of the first times scott sung with a higher pitch voice
I know exactly what you mean. The melody has a sixties rock band sound to it.
if only you knew back in 04' that their next album would be entirely 60's ........
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i really like this song. i think its about a women who has a lot of inscurities and has gotten so caught up in them that she's lost herself.
thats what i get from this song
I agree with ophelia. its so beautiful, so tragic
I would have to agree with you guys for the most part... Back in the early days peep shows and whore houses... I think he might be speaking on one of those women. Don't know. Maybe a street walker by night and wife by day? :(
hmm, this is an interesting one. i think there are people in this world who play the exact or somewhat similar role as lady picture show, caught up in something and afraid of being found out, but get caught anyway and try to deal with the guilt of it all. am i right or far off?
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i just love the sound
so laid back and classy