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Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden

Stone Temple Pilots - Wicked Garden Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Core
Released: 1992

Wicked Garden Lyrics

Can you see like a child?
Can you see what I want?
I wanna run through your Wicked Garden
Heard that's the place to find ya
Cause I'm alive So alive now
I know the darkness blinds you

Can you see without eyes?
Can you speak without lies?
I wanna drink from your naked fountain
i can drown your sorrows
I'm gonna burn Burn you to life now
Out of the chains that bind you

Can you see just like a child?
Can you see just what I want?
Can I bring you back to life?
Are you still alive?

Burn
Burn your wicked garden down
Burn your wicked garden to the ground

Can you feel pain inside?
Can you love?
Can you cry?
I wanna run through your wicked garden
Heard that's the place to find ya
Cause I'm alive So Alive now
I know the darkness blinds you

Can you see just like a child?
Can you see just what I want?
Can I bring you back to life?
Are you still alive?

Burn
Writer/s: DELEO, DEAN / DELEO, ROBERT EMILE / KRETZ, ERIC / WEILAND, SCOTT RICHARD
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Wicked Garden

This song about innocence lost could be seen as a general sentiment, but it could also relate to drug use, describing the temptations, along with the highs and lows, that come from drug abuse.

A band composition, lead singer Scott Weiland came up with the idea for this song before the band got a record deal. At the time, they were known as Mighty Joe Young, and they still had day jobs: Weiland worked for a modeling agency as a driver.

Stone Temple Pilots - Tomorrow

Stone Temple Pilots - Tomorrow Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: High Rise
Released: 2013

Tomorrow Lyrics

These endless days are wait for me
Tearing my heart that breaks for you
I'm coming home Tomorrow

Though you're not lying next to me
I hear your song that calls to me
I'm coming home tomorrow
Back in your arms

Tomorrow's just a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day, a lonely day away

The summer's gone and I can see
The season's end is set me free
I'm coming home tomorrow
Back in your arms

Tomorrow's just a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day,
A lonely day away

Tomorrow I'm coming home
Tomorrow I'm coming home
I'm so tired and so alone

It's like a dream I can't detain
It's like a fall I can't contain
And though it seems so far away
It's just a day,
A lonely day away

Writer/s: DeLeo, Robert Emile / DeLeo, Dean / Kretz, Eric / Bennington, Chester C
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Tomorrow

Chester Bennington explained to Artist Direct that his lyrics for this song are about that last day on tour before coming home: "For me, I'm gone for long periods of time," he said. "It could be anything from five days to five weeks. When you're on tour and you're not with your family, the first week-and-a-half flies by pretty quickly. You get that adrenaline and excitement of the tour. Then, it slows down to real time, which is still not bad. It's that last day before coming home that seems like it takes forever. It's like the lowest point for me. As I'm traveling so much, the last day is the worst and most depressing time. It just doesn't seem to go by fast enough."

"Really, what it comes down to is the love I have for my wife and children," Bennington continued. "When you're disconnected from that, you get a little bummed out. 'Tomorrow' is literally about the feelings I get on that last day before coming home."

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush

Stone Temple Pilots - Plush Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Core
Released: 1992

Plush Lyrics

And I feel that time's a wasted go
So where ya going to tomorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come
Would you even care?
And I feel it
And I feel it
Where ya going to tomorrow?
Where ya going with that mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?
And I feel, so much depends on the weather
So is it raining in your bedroom?
And I see, that these are the eyes of disarray
Would you even care?
And I feel it
And she feels it
Where ya going to tomorrow?
Where ya going with that mask I found?
And I feel, and I feel
When the dogs begin to smell her
Will she smell alone?
When the dogs do find her
Got time, time, to wait for tomorrow

Writer/s: WEILAND, SCOTT RICHARD/DE LEO, DEAN/DE LEO, ROBERT EMILE
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Plush

The lyrics were inspired, in part, by an unfortunate news story in Stone Temple Pilots' hometown of San Diego, California about a missing young woman who was later discovered dead by local law enforcement ("And I feel, when the dogs begin to smell her...").

At a concert in Columbus, Ohio on May 17, 2008, lead singer Scott Weiland said that he and STP drummer Eric Kretz wrote the lyrics in a hot tub after hearing the story. Weiland has described the song as "a metaphor for a lost obsessive relationship."

This was STP's breakthrough hit off of their major label debut album. Like all of their songs of the era, it is a band composition. When we spoke with their drummer Eric Kretz in 2013, he said that it was a very collaborative and energetic time for the band in terms of songwriting. "There was enthusiasm and excitement and everyone was in the room and participating creatively, artistically," he explained. "It's the most fun time to be in a band when everyone has the same ideas and everyone has the same goals."

Bassist Robert DeLeo came up with the riff for this song in the back of a U-Haul truck the band was using for a local tour. The song's instantly recognizable chord structure was inspired by DeLeo's love of Ragtime music.

The most widely broadcast version of this song is an acoustic rendition that starts with Scott Weiland saying, "This is a song called 'Plush.'"

Thanks to "Sex Type Thing," the group was invited on the MTV metal show Headbangers Ball for an interview. Guitarist Dean DeLeo suggested that he bring his acoustic guitar so they could perform this song on the show, and the network agreed.

The show was recorded on December 5, 1992 after the band had finished a month of concerts opening for Rage Against the Machine. They took a plane to New York and ingested some pills to help them sleep. When they got to their hotel, DeLeo and Weiland both got sick, but they made it to the MTV Studios for the 6 a.m. taping, as Weiland recalled, "high as zombies."

In this altered state, DeLeo and Weiland performed the song, delivering a far more relaxed and poignant version than is heard on the album. This version also turned out to be quite radio-friendly, and lots of stations started playing it. This version made #39 on the US Airplay chart on August 14, 1993 and stirred a great deal of interest in the band, although listeners who bought the Core album expecting similarly mellow fare were in for an unpleasant surprise.

In America, no singles from Core were made available for purchase, since Atlantic Records liked selling $16 albums more than $2 singles.

The title never appears in the lyric, which is also true of the Core tracks "Sex Type Thing" and "Naked Sunday."

The line, "Where you going with the mask I found?" is often misheard as "Where you going with the master plan?" (thanks, Elliot - St. Louis, MO)

Scott Weiland told the English music publication NME that the band's name came from Scientifically Treated Petroleum - petrol. He explained: "STP came from the image of STP oil treatment, which was always a powerful image. Richard Petty, the famous NASCAR racing driver, had the STP logo on his car and he was always a sort of renegade. We were Shirley Temple's Pussy but we had to change. I think it was Dean (Deleo - STP guitarist or Robert (DeLeo - STP bassist) who said, 'How about Stereo Temple Pirates?' and then we decided on Stone Temple Pilots. It wasn't a very quick process."

This won the 1993 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance with Vocal. It's the group's only Grammy win.

Core was the only STP album where vocalist Scott Weiland was identified only by his last name. Some critics took this as a sign of pretense, mocking it in reviews that compared the band unfavorably to the likes of Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Nirvana. With many grunge bands being snatched up by record labels and foisted on the public at this time, it's understandable why critics were wary, but the Core album would later be vindicated as a classic of the era.

The video was directed by Josh Taft, who also did the videos for "Sex Type Thing" and "Lady Picture Show." The "Plush" video got a lot of airplay on MTV and earned Stone Temple Pilots the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist in 1993.

Stone Temple Pilots - Wonderful

Stone Temple Pilots - Wonderful Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Shangri-La Dee Da
Released: 2001

Wonderful Lyrics

If I were to die this mornin'
Would you tell me things that you wouldn't have?
Would you be my navigator?
Would you take me to a place we could hide?

As I'm fallin' out
I wonder what I lost
Must be movin' on
Know I'll be waitin' here alone

I want to ask you to forgive me
I haven't been the best with all that I had
Wish I'd only laid beside you
I think I spread myself a little too thin

As I'm fadin' out
I don't feel anything at all
Think I'm movin' on
Know you'll be safe but not alone

You're the everything
That led me to believe,
"Hold on, hold on"
You're the wonder in everything
That's Wonderful

Writer/s: WEILAND, SCOTT RICHARD/DE LEO, ROBERT EMILE/DE LEO, DEAN
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Wonderful Song Chart

This was written by Scott Weiland and STP bass player Robert DeLeo while the band was on tour. Weiland considered it a love song for his wife at the time, Mary, dealing with the possibility of loss.

"'Wonderful' has me dreaming about my death," he wrote in his memoir. "In the next world, I envision Mary as my guide."

Mary Forsberg was Weiland's second wife. They were married from 2000-2007.

According to Weiland, this was his favorite Stone Temple Pilots ballad.

A live version featuring guest vocals by Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington is on the album Family Values 2001. STP was a big influence on Bennington, and he got to know the band when both groups played the Family Values Tour. In 2013, Bennington took over as the group's lead singer.

Stone Temple Pilots - Days of the Week

Stone Temple Pilots - Days of the Week Youtube Music Videos and Lyrics

Album: Shangri-La Dee Da
Released: 2001

Days of the Week Lyrics

Monday, back from the dead
I'm letting it go, back for another one

Tuesday, shoot me in the head
I'm takin' it back , takin' it back
I'll take it back

Wednesday, she's lookin' for a friend
She'll get what she wants
Can't seem to get enough

Thursday, it's more than I can stand
I'm holdin' her down, holdin' her down
She's down again

I gotta find a way to find her
Where could she be?
Four Days of the Week
She thinks I'm the enemy

One day, left me for dead
Woke up on the floor, time for another one
Two days, she's leavin' me again
Can't take it no more
Out through the open door
Three days, she's found herself a friend
She got what she wants
Still never get enough
Four days she's back with me again
She's pullin' me down, pullin' me down
I'm down again

Monday's gone
Tuesday's fadin'
Wednesday's gone
Thursday's all but wasted now

Writer/s: WEILAND, SCOTT RICHARD/DE LEO, ROBERT EMILE/DE LEO, DEAN
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing, Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., Universal Music Publishing Group
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Days of the Week Song Chart

Lead singer Scott Weiland wrote this about how he felt when he got out of prison; he spent five months in jail in 1999 for violating his probation from a heroin conviction. Every day he was faced with new challenges and new insecurities.

This was released as the first single from the fifth Stone Temple Pilots album, Shangri-La Dee Da. The band wanted the harder-edged "Coma" to be the first single, but their record company insisted on "Days of the Week," deeming it more commercial.

Weiland: "A rock 'n' roll feel of Zeppelin during the Presence period, but melodically and lyrically where I was coming from was Elvis Costello or Joe Jackson ."

In the video, the band is portrayed as door-to-door salesmen who escape their monotonous lives by turning into astronauts and blasting into space. Weiland was a door-to-door salesman when he was 19.

In the video, Scott Weiland is floating in space through the airlock. This is a reference to Stanley Kubrick's epic movie 2001: A Space Odyssey when David Bowman, the main character in the film, is denied access to the ship by HAL 9000 (the ship's main computer). (thanks, James - Dartmouth, Canada)