Stone Temple Pilots
Lyrics to the album Tiny Music...
Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop


©1996

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1. Press Play
2. Pop's Love Suicide
3. Tumble In The Rough
4. Big Bang Baby
5. Lady Picture Show
6. And So I Know
7. Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart
8. Art School Girl
9. Adhesive
10. Ride The Cliche'
11. Daisy
12. Seven Caged Tigers

1. Press Play

Instrumental

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2. Pop's Love SuicideHear the Wav!!!

Can you figure out what I want
Pull the trigger with a pop gun
Mindless fools that aggravate it
Pick at you in desperation

Oh it's a love pop suicide
Oh I'm in love pop suicide
Oh I really don't know

Pop life living it is so real
Midwest farmers' kids are milkfed
Breed and incubate what you see
Ten years later here on t.v.

Oh it's a love pop suicide
Oh I'm in love pop suicide
Oh I really don't know

(Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Oh I really don't know
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Oh I really don't know
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Oh I really don't know

Father can't you love your woman
Father can't you teach your children
Long range love implosion short wicked
Short wave mind explosion

Oh I'm in love suicide
About a pop star homicide
Oh I really don't know

(Yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Oh I really don't know
(Yeah yeah yeah yeah)

(Guitar solo)

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3. Tumble In The Rough

I can't eat
I can't sleep
I can't live
I can't cry
I can't die
I can't walk
I can't talk
I can booze
I can booze
Steal your shoes
So I can move
Tumble in the rough
Tumble in the rough
Tumble in the rough

I'm looking for a new meditation
Still looking for a new way to fly
Don't want any plastic validation
Not looking for a new way to die

I made excuses for a million lies
But all I got was humble kidney pie

So what
So what

I can't eat
I can't sleep
I can't live
I can't cry
I can't die
I can't walk
I can't talk
I can booze
I can booze
Steal your shoes
So I can move
Tumble in the rough
Tumble in the rough
Tumble in the rough

I'm lookin' for a new stimulation
Quite bored of those inflatable ties
I'm looking for a new rock sensation
Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides

I made excuses for a million lies
But all I got was humble kidney pie

So what
So what
So what
So what

Can't hold 'em in buy new shoes
(Tumble in the rough)
Lived on a summer with new shoes
(Tumble in the rough)
Can't hold 'em in buy new shoes
(Tumble in the rough)
Lived on a summer with new shoes
(Tumble in the rough)

(Guitar solo)

I can't eat
I can't sleep
I can't live
I can't cry
I can't die
I can't walk
I can't talk
I can booze
I can booze
Steal your shoes
So I can move
Tumble in the rough
Tumble in the rough
Tumble in the rough

I made excuses for a million lies
But all I got was humble kidney pie

I made excuses for a million lies
But all I got was humble kidney pie

So what
So what
So what
So what

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4. Big Bang BabyHear the Wav!!!

I got a picture of a photograph
Of a wedding and a shell
It's just burning ancient memory
I never kiss and tell

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along

Does anybody know
How the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along

Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

Spin me up, spin me, spin me out
Station to station send me up and out
Is this what life and love is all about
I think I think so

We used to see in color
Now it's only black and white
Yeah it's only black and white
'Cause the world is color blind

Does anybody know
How the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along

Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

Nothing's for free
Nothing's for free
Take it away boys

Nothing's for free
Nothing's for free
Take it away boys

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along

Does anybody know
How the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along

Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna cry but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

Nothing's for free
Nothing's for free
Take it away boys

Nothing's for free
Nothing's for free
Take it away boys

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along

Does anybody know
How the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along

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5. Lady Picture Show

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

Lady picture girl I think them boys don't like your show
Lady picture show them boys are gone should just say 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

Nothing baby
Nothing baby
Nothing baby

(Guitar solo)

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

Nothing baby
Nothing baby
Nothing baby

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6. And So I Know

And so I know
It's begun again
Never be the same
And with that I said
Never ever be this way again

(Campfire girls make me feel alright)
Hold on till the end
Like it's the last hello

(Campfire girls make me feel alright)
Whirlwinds and rollercoasters
Long grass making shapes hello
Disappearing disappearing floating graves

Never, ever, ever, ever be this way again
Never ever be this way again

(Guitar solo)

Never, ever, ever, ever be this way again
Never ever be this way again

(Campfire girls make me feel alright)
And so I know
It's begun again

(Campfire girls make me feel alright)
Never be the same again
And with that I said

(Campfire girls, make me feel alright)
(Campfire girls, make me feel alright)

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7. Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart

Don't cut out my paper heart
I ain't dyin' anyway
Take a look at eye full towers
Never trust them dirty liars

Sippin' lemon yellow booze
Ol' leadbelly sings the blues
All dressed up on wedding day
Keep on trippin' anyway

I am I am I said I'm not myself
I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
So keep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day deathbead motorcade

Fake the heat and scratch the itch
Skinned up knees and salty lips
I'll breathe your life vicks vapor life
And when you binge I purge alike

Let go it's harder holding on
One more trip and I'll be gone
So keep your head up
Keep it on, just a whisper I'll be gone

Take a breath and make it big
It's the last you'll ever get
Break you neck with diamond noose
It's the last you'll ever choose

I am I am I said I'm not myself
I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
Hold me closer, closer let me go
Let me be just let me be

I am I am I said I'm not myself
I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
So keep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day deathbead motorcade

(Guitar solo)

I am I am I said I'm not myself
I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
Hold me closer, closer let me go
Let me be just let me be

I am I am I said I'm not myself
I'm not dead and I'm not for sale
So keep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day deathbead motorcade

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8. Art School Girl

I got a girlfriend, she goes to art school
I got a art school grilfriend yeah
I got a girlfriend, she got a girlfriend
We gotta girlfriend and she gotta go

She left her home from sweet Alabama
Rose Alabama for the city, New York City yeah
She left her home from sweet Alabama
Rose Alabama for the city, New York City yeah

I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times

I gotta girlfriend she goes to parties
Underground parties Andy Warhol everywhere
She wears the leather I wear the makeup
We'll never break up been together for a month

She left her home from sweet Alabama
Rose Alabama for the city, New York City yeah
She left her home from sweet Alabama
Rose Alabama for the city, New York City yeah

I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times

Five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you

Five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you

(Guitar solo)

I got a girlfriend, she goes to art school
I got a art school grilfriend yeah
I got a girlfriend, she got a girlfriend
We gotta girlfriend and she gotta go

She left her home from sweet Alabama
Rose Alabama for the city, New York City yeah
She left her home from sweet Alabama
Rose Alabama for the city, New York City yeah

Five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times
I told you five or four times

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9. Adhesive

My friend Blue he runs the show
With hot pink purple china glow
His family trees are molded
No longer grows in summer

He holds it closer lets it go
Picks a fruit but keeps it whole
Could keep the submarin in
Keep the light from fading

Grab the hate and drown it out
Grab the beat and drum it out
It's all so confusing

Ain't the same for you and me
Cartoon-like reality
Dogs and cats and children
The deepest wound is hidden

Ain't the same for you and me
Comatose commodity
The superheros dyin'
All the children cryin'

Sell more records if I'm dead
Purple flowers once again
Hope it's sooner hope it's near
corporate records' fiscal year

Down the river
Down the river

Have a listen lend an ear
Here's a song now if ya care
We can all just hum along
Words don't matter anymore

Grab the hate and drown it out
Grab the beat and drum it out
It's all so confusing

Adhesive love
Adhesive
Adhesive love

Adhesive love
Adhesive
Adhesive love

Flyin' high across the plain
Purple flowers ease the pain
Here now have a listen
Ain't the songs you're missin'

Down the river
Down the river

Stitch the womb and wet the bed
With a whisper I'll be dead
Don't let the living die yet

Grab the hate and drown it out
Grab the beat and drum it out
It's all so confusing

Adhesive love
Adhesive
Adhesive love

Adhesive love
Adhesive
Adhesive love

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10. Ride The Cliche'

She no wait
But she know me
Intake purge
It's my disease

Hold me closer let me be
Hold me closer let me go away
Barely know you know my name
Trip the witch and ride the shame

Just because
You're so cliched
It don't mean
You won't get paid

Hold me closer let me be
Hold me closer let me go away
Barely know you know my name
Trip the witch and ride the shame

(Guitar solo)

She no wait
But she know me
Intake purge
It's my disease

Hold me closer let me be
Hold me closer let me go away
Barely know you know my name
Trip the bitch and ride the shame
No way

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11. Daisy

Instrumental

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12. Seven Caged Tigers

Pass the time kickin' as time rips by
Neither goose nor the gander fly

Buy a minute spend an hour burnin' burnin'
Take a peek as the model earns it earns it

Walk a mile as it keeps crawlin' crawlin'
Clean the politician and wash it with everpure

So the answer gets harder
And the truth's getting farther and farther
And the bottle keeps churnin' and churnin'
Seven caged tigers fly by, fly by

Wastin' time chasin' those cows that fly
Churnin' out all that butterfly sugarboost
Track the blade as it swoops downward and onward
Take a pill it'll kill martyrs, martyrs

Passin' time rippin' as time kicks by
Pass the umbilical cord down for this fly by
Take a sneak while the model earns it, earns it
Hike a mile as it keeps crawlin' on, crawlin' on

So the answer gets harder
And the truth's getting farther and farther
And the bottle keeps churnin' and churnin'
Seven caged tigers fly by, fly by

(Guitar solo)

So the answer gets harder
And the truth's getting farther and farther
And the bottle keeps churnin' and churnin'
Seven caged tigers fly by, fly by

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