Stone Temple Pilots Album

(S. Weiland)

I am smelling like the rose that somebody gave me on my birthday deathbed
I am smelling like the rose that somebody gave me 'cause I'm dead & bloated

Yeah, and she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
You can't swallow what I'm thinking

I am smelling like the rose that somebody gave me on my birthday deathbed
I am trampled under sole of another man's shoes guess I walked too softly

Oh yeah, and she says it's natural
I feel I've come of age
When she peeks I start to run
You can't swallow what I'm thinking

I run through the world thinkin' about tomorrow
I am smelling like the rose that somebody gave me on my birthday deathbed

(S. Weiland)

I am I am I am I said I wanna get next to you
I said I wanna get close to you
You wouldn't want me have to hurt you too, hurt you too?

I ain't I ain't I ain't A buyin' into your apathy
I'm gonna learn ya my philosophy
You wanna know about atrocity?

I know you want what's on my mind
I know you like what's on my mind
I know it eats you up inside
I know you know, you know

I am a man, a man I'll give ya something that ya won't forget
I said you shouldn't have worn that dress

I know you want what's on my mind...

(S. Weiland)

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?

(S. Weiland)

Holywater clouds my thinking, sinking low now, keep on drinking
Down you go, suffer long, Down you go, sin make me strong

You control me, soul you stole, mine wishful thinking, six feet under
Down you go, suffer long Down you go, sin make me strong

So feel what were my eyes
Sink into the holes in my eyes
My sins have made me blind
sink into the holes in my eyes

Dead by dreaming, sleep you steal, mine Pools of cold sweat hatred burns me
Down you go, suffer long, Down you go, sin make me strong

Still shackled to the shadow

(S. Weiland)

You're the fuel to the fire You're the weapons of war
You're the irony of justice And the father of law

I've been waiting for a while to meet you
For the chance to shake your hand
To give you thanks for all the suffering you command
And when all is over and we return to dust
Who will be my judge and which one do I trust?
Angst...

You're the champion of sorrow You're the love and the pain
You're the fighter of evil Yet you're one and the same

I've been waiting for a while to meet you
For the chance to shake your hand
To give you thanks for all the suffering you command
And when all is over and we return to dust
Who will be my judge and which one do I trust?

(S. Weiland / R. DeLeo)

Forward yesterday Makes me wanna stay
What they said was real Makes me wanna steal
Living under house Guess I'm living I'm a mouse
All's I gots is time Got no meaning just a rhyme

Take time with a wounded hand 'cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand 'cause I like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand 'cause it likes to heal,
I like to steal

I'm half the man I used to be (This feeling as the dawn it fades to gray)

Feeling uninspired think I'll start a fire
Everybody run Bobby's got a gun
Think you're kinda neat then she tells me I'm a creep
Friends don't mean a thing Guess I'll leave it up to me.

Take time with a wounded hand 'cause it likes to heal
Take time with a wounded hand 'Guess i like to steal
Take time with a wounded hand 'cause it likes to heal,
I like to steal

I'm half the man I used to be (This feeling as the dawn it fades to gray)

(S. Weiland)

I broke the Breadline Nobody Knows
I walked the frontline Still got far to go
I mixed the water I drank the water
I broke the breadline Don't wanna know

It's staring me down Wearing a crown of apathy
I'm standing around Dressed like a clown
Don't know my name You know where to find me

I killed the manchild I'll fast alone
I had the midwife Naked and alone
I mixed the water I drank the water
I killed the brainchild I'll fast alone

It's staring me down...

Don't wanna let me be a man
Don't wanna lead me to your home

It's staring me down....

I killed the manchild
I had the midwife
I drank the water
I stand alone

I broke the breadline
I walked the frontline
Don't know my name You know where to find me

Don't wanna let me be a man

(S. Weiland / E. Kretz)

And I feel that time's a wasted go So where ya going to tomorrow?
And I see that these are lies to come So would you even care?

And I feel it, And I feel it

Where ya going for tomorrow Where ya going with the 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 for tomorrow Where ya going with the 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
She'll find it She'll find it

(S. Weiland)

Hey everybody where did Mary go
where did Mary go? and where's my only cigarette?
Please think for me, I can't bear to
I'll just lie here for a while

Wet myself, wet my bed
I readied it all for her, you know
Clean sheets, incense and lots of fluffy pillows - now soiled
Hey, where's my cigarette?

Did you check the bathroom, the bathtub,
she sleeps there sometimes,
water cleanses you know,
washes dirt away, makes new

maybe she swam away

(S. Weiland)

Kickin' as I'm Trying to sleep Got the mud beneath my shoes
Rubber band, rubberband Gun in hand, gun in hand I wanna use
Roamin' ,roamin', roam Get away, gotta get away
And I think I think too much I don't care yeah but I don't care
Roamin' ,roamin', roam Get away, gotta get away
And I think I think too much

Trippin' as I'm thinkin' about a boy, his name was sue
He's a man, he's a man crackerman, crackerman, he's a woman too
Roamin' ,roamin' roam Get away, gotta get away
And I think I think too much I don't care yeah but I don't care
Roamin' ,roamin' roam Get away, gotta get away
And I think I think too much

And I'm thinkin' While I'm thinking
And I'm thinkin' While I'm thinking

Roamin' ,roamin' roam Get away, gotta get away
And I think I think too much I don't care yeah but I don't care
Roamin' ,roamin' roam Get away, gotta get away
And I think I think too much

And I'm thinkin' While I'm thinking

(S. Weiland)

Yeah, I could hide in the calm of the eye of a storm and never blow away
Well I'm a young man with a knife to my back. Some things never seem to change

Nowhere to run to, Nowhere to hide Sing the song or keep it inside
Bought to farm, but the farmer done died. Sing that song, sing that song inside


I wish I could live in the dream that I fly on tarred and feathered wings
Well, I'm losing a game of reality dice where the dealer never ever pays

Nowhere to run to...

I wanna be as big as a mountain, I wanna fly as high as the sun,
I wanna know what the rent's like in heaven I wanna know where the river goes

Yeah, I could hide in the calm of the eye of a storm and never blow away
Well I'm a young man with a knife to my back Some things never seem to change

Nowhere to run to...

Ii wanna be as big as a mountain...

If I was stronger I could be a mountain range