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Sublime - STP

Sublime - STP Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Robbin' The Hood
Released: 1994

STP Lyrics

All that I need, look at all the love we've found
I won't run and pull the one jack move
They love her for the Kingston sound, oh

Flava-Flave and I-C-E
Once said something that made me
Want to burn my liquor store down to the ground
But I just can't leave the pad, cuz I'll surely wind up dead
'Cuz I know there out there out there waiting and watching for me
Still I got my yellow cat and my wooden baseball bat
And my shiny silver gat and if my homey my back then I got

All that I need, look at all the love we've found, oh
I won't run and pull the one jack move
They love her for the Kingston sound, oh

I won't slip, and I won't trip, send Matt Vargas to regrip
While I'm wrenchin' on my ride, in that secret pad where we hide
There's always lotsa fun stuff to do
Like relax and design a brand new tattoo
Play with my cross-word puzzle book, I'm even learning how to cook

Have you seen that little whore Betty?
Someone said she stole my Freddie
And if she made off with my last clean ring
I'm gonna kill that fuckin' ditch pig
So what?
Outta my, outta my, outta my, outta my secret pad
'Cause I know your talkin' about me baby, makin' it hard to live
'Cause I, don't want no money dick, don't want no money down
My secret tweaker pad is now the hottest pale spot in town I guess
Take it nice and easy
Don't want no sheriff breakin' down the door to raid me, 'cause

All that I need, look at all the love we've found
I won't run and pull the one jack move
They love her for the Kingston sound

Baby you wanna give me kisses sweet
Only for one night with no repeat
Baby you wanna leave and never go
But the taste of honey is worse than none at all

Writer/s: BRADLEY JAMES NOWELL
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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STP

The lyrics indicate that STP stands for "Secret Tweaker Pad." A tweaker is someone under the influence of methamphetamines.

The lyrics at the end of the song are from "I Second That Emotion" by Smokey Robinson: "Baby you wanna give me kisses sweet, only for a night with no repeat. Baby you wanna leave and never go, but the taste of honey is worse than none at all."

On the live Stand By Your Van album, Bradley Nowell adds the word "speed" to the end of the line, "I'm even learning how to cook."

Sublime - Pool Shark

Sublime - Pool Shark Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Robbin' The Hood
Released: 1994

Pool Shark Lyrics

They say in this song Brad predicts his own death from Heroin

Lying in my plastic bed,
Thinkin' how things were so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom

Tying on the dinosaur
Tonight it used to be so cool

Now I've got the needle
And I can't bleed, but I can't breathe.
Take it away and I want more and more
One day I'm gonna lose the war

Lying in my plastic bed
Thinkin' how things were so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom

Tying on the dinosaur
Tonight it used to be so cool

Now I've got the needle
And I can't shake
But I can't breathe

Take it away and but I want more and more
One day I'm gonna lose the war

Writer/s: ELAM, KEITH/SUBLIME /
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Pool Shark

This is widely known as singer Bradley Nowell's "suicide note." It talks of his struggle with heroin, and how "One day (he's) gonna lose the war." Nowell died of a heroin overdose in 1996. (thanks, Jules - W Bloomfield, MI)

While this song does make specific references to heroin ("Now I've got the needle, and I can shake"), Nowell wrote it about a specific girl. In our interview with Sublime bass player Eric Wilson , he explained that the "Pool Shark" was his girlfriend at the time. "She was really good at pool - it turns out she was hanging out with some guys and she got good at pool," he said. "They broke up shortly after that, but that's what he wrote that about."

Sublime - Saw Red

Sublime - Saw Red Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Robbin' The Hood
Released: 1994

Saw Red Lyrics

Girls don't go crazy

Woman, hold your man tight

Every day I love him just a little bit more,
A little bit more, a little bit more
Everyday I love him just a little bit more
And he loves me the same

Every day I love her just a little bit more,
A little bit more, little bit more
Everyday I love her just a little bit more
And she loves me the same

Baby if you want to get on

Oh baby if you want to get off

It makes no sense at all

I Saw Red

I saw red, I saw red, one more sacred lover that

I shot dead

Everyday I wake up just a little bit more
Feelin' like a dog out on the yard
Because that's just how we are

Everyday I wonder if it's over
When I wake up realizin' that we hate
And brake down the war

You say it's black, but I can't believe you

And if you say it's white,
You say I'm tryin' to deceive you

And I'm aware of the high and the low,
And I'd be waiting for you in the middle but I just lack control

Baby if you want to get low

Oh baby if you want to get high

It makes no sense at all

I saw red

I saw red, I saw red, one more sacred lover that

I shot dead

Girls, don't go crazy,
Girls, don't go crazy,
Oh girls, don't go crazy when the men use you, oh

Oh, woman hold your man tight
If it makes you feel right, it's your own life

Writer/s: NOWELL, BRADLEY JAMES / LEVY, BARRINGTON AINSWORTH
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group, UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUB GROUP, BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Saw Red

No Doubt lead singer Gwen Stefani sang on this, making it into a duet running 1:57; she used to go out with Sublime lead singer Brad Nowell. On the Sublime: Stories, Tales, Lies & Exaggerations DVD, Stefani explained that Nowell wrote this in the studio and did his vocal in one take. (thanks, Vanessa - Covina, CA)

This was recorded before either Sublime or No Doubt were famous. Both groups rose to fame in the mid-'90s on the Southern California punk scene that also featured Green Day and the Offspring and was fathered by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

This is based on a popular Jamaican song called "She's Mine" by the dancehall singer Barrington Levy. Sublime recorded it as a tribute to Levy, changing the lyrics but keeping the music pretty much intact. After Sublime lead singer Brad Nowell died, their bass player and drummer formed the Long Beach Dub All-Stars, and recorded a version of this song with Levy. (thanks, Mitch - Colton, CA)

Robbin' The Hood was Sublime's second album, released on their independent label, Skunk Records. This song was a hit with college radio, but Sublime didn't break through to the mainstream until their next (self-titled) album, which was released in 1996 after they signed with MCA Records.

An acoustic version appears on Bradley Nowell & Friends, released in 1998. It's just Brad and a guitar.

In October of 2008 this song was covered by Rome Ramirez for YouTube's "Rawsession," featuring Sublime bassist Eric Wilson. (thanks, Logan - Ottawa, KS)