 Genius Meanings
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Stone Temple Pilots – Vasoline
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Vasoline is the second single from Stone Temple Pilots‘ sophomore album Purple. It was written by Scott Weiland.
According to Scott Weiland, the song is about “feeling like an
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Stone Temple Pilots – Big Empty
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Upon hearing of actor Brandon Lee’s on-set death while filming The Crow, STP decided to scrap their unfortunately-titled song “Only Dying” and submit “Big Empty” in its place for
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Stone Temple Pilots – Interstate Love Song
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Weiland, and the DeLeo Brothers were so good at what now seems MOR– acoustic intros, power chords, high-tailing choruses– that Interstate Love Song dominated rock radio at a time
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Stone Temple Pilots – Andy Warhol (Unplugged)
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[Verse 1] / Like to take a cement fix / Be a standing cinema / Dress my friends up just for show / See them as they really are / Put a peephole in my brain / Two new pence to have
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Stone Temple Pilots – Still Remains
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Scott Weiland wrote this song about Janina Castaneda. It’s a ballad about being ingrossed in a person that you want to be with even after death.
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Stone Temple Pilots – All in the Suit That You Wear
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[Verse 1] / Hey you, someone said you were lost out there / In the grip, tryin' to strangle us all down here / In the meantime, are you ever goin' to set us free / Hey you, will we
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Stone Temple Pilots – Unglued
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This song has absolutely nothing to do with sex and/or the act of masturbating. Just because the word masturbation and coming unglued are in the lyrics, it doesn’t automatically
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Stone Temple Pilots – Creep
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“Creep” is the fourth single from and seventh track on Stone Temple Pilot’s 1992 album Core.
According to bassist and co-writer of “Creep” Robert DeLeo:
Musically speaking I was
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Stone Temple Pilots – Crackerman (Unplugged)
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[Verse 1] / Kicking as I'm trying to sleep / I got the mud beneath my shoes / Rubber band, rubber-band / Gun in hand, gun in hand / I wanna use / [Chorus] / Roaming, roaming, roam
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Stone Temple Pilots – Peacoat
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[Verse 1] / You love me more? / Because you can't imagine me as someone old / But in the moment of sinless embrace / Your eyes stare right through me to the back of my face / [Pre-
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Stone Temple Pilots – MC5
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[Chorus 1] / No, you don't get it, no, you don't want it / No, you don't get it, no / A-no, you don't get it, no, you don't want it / No, you don't get it, no / [Refrain] / She don
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Stone Temple Pilots – Plush
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“Plush” was the second single from the Stone Temple Pilots‘ debut album Core.
On an episode of VH1’s Storytellers, lead singer Scott Weiland explained the inspiration behind “
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Stone Temple Pilots – Fare Thee Well
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“Fare Thee Well” is the first song in Stone Temple Pilot’s upcoming 2020 album, Perdida. The song highlights unspoken love and realization at the moment it disappears, a recurring
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Stone Temple Pilots – Meatplow
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[Verse 1] / Fine place for a day full of breakdowns / Takes more than a meltdown to show us how / Throw a tack on the road, stop the meatplow / Got a bullet but it ain't mine / [
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Stone Temple Pilots – Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
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Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart is the second single from Stone Temple Pilots‘ third album Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop.
According to Scott Weiland in a radio
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Stone Temple Pilots – Sex Type Thing
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Scott Weiland was compelled to write the lyrics after an incident in which a girl he was dating was raped by three high school football players after a party. Thus, Weiland has
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Stone Temple Pilots – Dancing Days
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STP’s dancing days is a cover of Led Zeppelin’s song first launched as part of
Encomium: A Tribute to Led Zeppelin on March 14, 1995.
The song was rereleased as part of the
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Stone Temple Pilots – Pretty Penny
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Scott Weiland said this song was about a close friend of the band’s, Robert Pirano and his family. No one knows for sure why as the band hasn’t officially said what the song means
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Stone Temple Pilots – Wicked Garden
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Scott Weiland stated that Wicked Garden is a song about people allowing all their innocence and purity to be lost from their lives. This can be related to the music video published
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Stone Temple Pilots – Sour Girl
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“Everyone is convinced that it’s about my romance with Mary [Forsberg, second wife],” Weiland writes in his autobiography Not Dead and Not For Sale. “But everyone is wrong. ‘Sour
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Stone Temple Pilots – Silvergun Superman
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This song is emblematic of Scott Weiland’s growing lyrical obsession with his heroin addiction. “Silver gun” is slang for a hypodermic needle, and being a “Silver Gun Superman
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Stone Temple Pilots – Kitchenware & Candy Bars
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[Verse 1] / Somebody told me / I know where to go / Somebody showed me / I was last to know / [Pre-Chorus] / Sell me down the river / Sell me down the river / Sell me down the
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Stone Temple Pilots – She Knows Me Too Well (Demo)
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STP’s She Knows Me Too Well is a cover of The Beach Boy’s obscure song She Knows Me Too Well. The song talks about a jealous and cruel man in an abusive relationship, he is
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