Stone Temple Pilots || Album: Tiny Music

Trppin' 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 'ole' 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 deathbed 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, one more whisper I'll be gone
Take a breath and make it big
It's the last you'll ever get
Break your 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 deathbed motorcade

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 deathbed motorcade

Follow Me

It's by far the hardest thing I've ever done,
To be so in love with you so long.

(CHORUS)

Follow me where I go, what I do, and who I know,
Make it part of you to be a part of me.
Follow me up and down, all the way, and all around,
Take my hand and say you'll follow me.

It's long been on my mind,
You know it's been a long, long time,
I've tried to find a way that I could make you understand
The way I feel about you, just how much I need you,
To be there where I can talk to you when there's no on else around.

REPEAT CHORUS

You see I'd like to share my life with you, show you things I've seen,
Places that I'm going to, places where I've been.
To have you there beside me and never be alone,
And all the time that you're with me, we will be at home.

Follow me where I go, what I do, and who I know,
Make it part of you to be a part of me.
Follow me up and down, all the way...
Take my hand and I will follow too.

Head Like a Hole

God Money I'll do anything for you
God Money just tell me what you want me to
God Money nail me up against the wall
God Money he don't want everything He want it all

No
No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take it (No you can't take that away from me)
Head like a hole, black as your soul, I'd rather die than give you control
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve

God Money's not looking for the cure
God Money's not concerned about the sick among the pure
God Money let's go dancing on the backs of the bruised
God Money's not one to choose

No
No you can't take it
No you can't take it
No you can't take it (No you can't take that away from me)
Head like a hole, black as your soul, I'd rather die than give you control
Bow down before the one you serve
You're going to get what you deserve
(Repeat ad infinitum.)

Closer

You let me violate you, you let me desecrate you
You let me penetrate you, you let me complicate you

Help me I broke apart my insides, help me I've got no soul to sell
Help me the only thing that works for me, help me get away from myself

I want to f**k you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to f**k you like an animal
My whole existance is flawed
You get me closer to God

You can have my isolation, you can have the hate that it brings
You can have my absence of faith, you can have my everything

Help me tear down my reason, help me it's your sex I can smell
Help me you make me perfect, help me become somebody else

I want to f**k you like an animal
I want to feel you from the inside
I want to f**k you like an animal
My whole existance is flawed
You get me closer to God

Through every forest, above the trees
Within my stomach, scraped off my knees
I drink the honey inside your hive
You are the reason I stay alive

Perfect Drug

I got my head but my head is unravelling
Can't keep control can't keep track of where I'm travelling
I got my heart but my heart is no good
You're the only one that's understood

I come along but I don't know where you're taking me
I shouldn't go but you're wrenching dragging shaking me
Turn off the sun pull the stars from the sky
the more I give to you the more I die

And I want you

You are the perfect drug
the perfect drug
the perfect drug
the perfect drug

You make me hard when I'm all soft inside
You see the truth when I'm all stupid-eyed
The arrow goes straight through my heart
Without you everything just falls apart

My blood just wants to say hello to you
My fears are warm to get inside of you
My soul is so afraid to realize
How every little bit is left of me

And I want you

You are the perfect drug
the perfect drug
the perfect drug
the perfect drug

Take me with you

Without you,

everything just falls apart

Without you,

It's not as much fun to pick up the pieces

(Also repeat ad infinitum)

Girls And Boys

Street's like a jungle
So call the police
Following the herd
Down to Greece - on holiday

Love in the nineties
Is paranoid
On sunny beaches
Take your chances - looking for

CHORUS:

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they're girls
Who do girls like they're boys

Always should be someone you really love

(REPEAT)

Avoiding all work
'Cos there's none available
Like battery thinkers
Count your thoughts - on one two three four five fingers

Nothing is wasted
Only reproduced
You get nasty blisters

Du bist sehr schoen*
But we haven't been introduced.

REPEAT CHORUS TWICE
2ND TIME: Always should be someone to really love.

Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah
Looking for...

REPEAT CHORUS FOUR TIMES
LAST TIME: Always should be someone to really love.

Ah ah ah ah ah ah
Ah ah ah ah ah

(* Translation: You are very beautiful.)

Criminal

I've been a bad bad girl
I've been careless with a delicate man
And its a sad sad world
When a girl will break a boy
Just because she can

Don't you tell me to deny it
I've done wrong and I want to
Suffer for my sins

I've come to you 'cause I need
Guidance to be true
And I just don't know where I can begin

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

Heaven help me for the way I am
Save me from the evil deeds
Before I get them done

I know tomorrow brings the consequence
At hand
But I keep livin' this day like
The next will never come

Oh help me but don't tell me
To deny it
I've got to cleanse myself
Of all these lies till I'm good
Enough for him

I've got a lot to lose and I'm
Bettin' high
So I'm beggin' you before it ends
Just tell me where to begin

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

Let me know the way
Before there's hell to pay
Give me room to lay the law and let me go

I've got to make a play
To make my lover stay
So what would an angel say
The devil wants to know

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feelin' like a criminal
And I need to redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love

Pepper

Marky got with Sharon
Sharon got Cherice
She was sharin' Sharon's outlook on the topic of the seas

Mikey had a facial scar
Bobby was a racist

They were all in love with dyin'
They were doin' it in Texas

Tommy played piano like a kid out in the rain
Then he lost his leg in Dallas
He was dancin' with a train

They were all in love with dyin'
They were drinking from a fountain
That was pourin' like an avalanche comin' down the mountain.

I don't mind the sun sometimes
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips and
Smell you in my clothes

Cinnamon and sugary
Like softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through other people's eyes.

Some will die in hot pursuit
In firey auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes

Some will fall in love with life and drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche comin' down the mountain.

I don't mind the sun sometimes
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips and
Smell you in my clothes

Cinnamon and sugary
Like softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through other people's eyes.

Another Mikey caught a knife
While arguing in traffic

Flipper died a natural death
He caught a nasty virus

Then there was the ever present
Football player-rapist

They were all in love with dyin'
They were doin' it in Texas

Holly caught a bullet
But it only hit his leg
Well, it should have been a better shot and
Hit him in the head

They were all in love with dyin'
They were drinkin' from a fountain
That was pourin' like an avalanche comin' down the mountain

I don't mind the sun sometimes
The images it shows
I can taste you on my lips and
Smell you in my clothes

Cinnamon and sugary
Like softly spoken lies
You never know just how you look
Through other people's eyes.

Barely Breathing

I know what you're doing, I see it all too clear
I only taste the saline when I kiss away your tears
You really had me going, wishing on a star
But the black holes that surround you are heavier by far

I believed in your confusion, you were so completely torn
Well it must have been that yesterday was the day that I was born
There's not much to examine, there's nothing left to hide
You really can't be serious if you had to ask me why
I say goodbye...

'Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
I don't know who I'm kidding
Imagining you care

And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
But I don't suppose it's worth the price, worth the price
The price that I would pay

Everyone keeps asking, what's it all about?
I used to be so certain and I can't figure out
What is this attraction? I only feel the pain
There's nothing left to reason and only you to blame
Will it ever change?

'Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
I don't know who I'm kidding
Imagining you care

And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
But I don't suppose it's worth the price, worth the price
The price that I would pay
But I'm thinking it over anyway...

I've come to find
I may never know
Your changing mind
Is it friend or foe?

I rise above
Or sink below
With every time
You come and go
Please don't come and go

'Cause I am barely breathing
And I can't find the air
I don't know who I'm kidding
Imagining you care

And I could stand here waiting
A fool for another day
But I don't suppose it's worth the price, worth the price
The price that I would pay
But I'm thinking it over anyway...

I Want You

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola

I don't need to try to explain
I just hold on tight and if it happens again
I may move so slightly to the arms
And the lips and the face
Of The Human Cannonball that
I need to I want to...

Come stand a little bit closer
Breathe in and get a bit higher
You'll never know what hit you when
I get to you

Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out
Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out

I'm the kind of person who endorses a deep commitment
Getting comfy getting perfect is what I live for
But a look and then a smell of perfume
It's like I'm down on the floor
And I Don't know what I'm in for
Conversation has a time and place in the interaction
Of a lover and a mate but the time of talking
Using symbols, using words can be likened
To a deep sea diver who is swimming with a raincoat

Come stand a little bit closer
Breathe in and get a bit higher
You'll never know what hit you when
I get to you

Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out
Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out

Ooh, ahh...

Ooh, ahh...

Anytime I need to see your face I just close my eyes
And I am taken to a place
Where your crystal minds and magenta feelings
Take up shelter in the base of my spine
Sweet like a chica cherry cola
I don't need to try to explain
I just hold on tight and if it happens again
I may move so slightly to the arms
And the lips and the face
Of The Human Cannonball that
I need to I want to...

Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out
Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out

So can we find out?

Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out
Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out

Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out
Ooh I want you, I don't know if I need you but
Ooh I'd die to find out

Walking Contradiction

Do as I say not say as I do because
The shit's so deep you can't run away
I beg to differ on the contrary
I agree with every word that you say
Talk is cheap and lies are expensive
My wallet's fat and so is my head
Hit and run and then I'll hit you again
I'm a smart-ass but I'm playing dumb

Standards set and broken all the time
Control the chaos behind the gun
Call it as I see it even if
I was born deaf blind and dumb
Losers winning big on the lottery
Rehab rejects still sniffing glue
Constant refutation with myself
I'm a victim of a catch 22

(chorus)

I have no belief
But I believe I'm a
Walking contradiction
And I ain't got no right

Lazing On A Sunday Afternoon

I go out to work on a Monday morning
Tuesday I go off to honeymoon
I'll be back again before it's time for Sunny-down,
I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon

Bicycling on every Wednesday evening
Thursday I go waltzing to the Zoo
I come from London town, I'm just an ordinary guy,

Fridays I go painting in the Louvre
I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night (There he goes again)

I'll be lazing on a Sunday
lazing on a Sunday
lazing on a Sunday Afternoon.

Bohemian Rhapsody

Is this the real life?
Is this just fantasy?
Caught in a landslide,
No escape from reality.

Open your eyes, Look up to the skies and see,
I'm just a poor boy, I need no sympathy,
Because I'm easy come, easy go, Little high, little low,
Any way the wind blows doesn't really matter to me, to me.

Mama just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger, now he's dead.
Mama, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away.
Mama, ooh, Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters.

Too late, my time has come,
Sends shivers down my spine, body's aching all the time.
Goodbye, ev'rybody, I've got to go,
Gotta leave you all behind and face the truth.
Mama, ooh, I don't want to die,
I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all.

I see a little silhouetto of a man,
Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango.
Thunderbolt and light'ning, very, very fright'ning me.
(Galileo.) Galileo. (Galileo.) Galileo, Galileo figaro
Magnifico.

I'm just a poor boy and nobody loves me.
He's just a poor boy from a poor family,
Spare him his life from this monstrosity.

Easy come, easy go, will you let me go.
Bismillah! No, we will not let you go.

(Let him go!)

Bismillah! We will not let you go.

(Let him go!)

Bismillah! We will not let you go.

(Let me go.) Will not let you go.
(Let me go.) Will not let you go. (Let me go.) Ah.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

(Oh mama mia, mama mia.)Mama mia, let me go.
Beelzebub has a devil put aside for me, for me, for me.

So you think you can stone me and spit in my eye.
So you think you can love me and leave me to die?
Oh, baby, can't do this to me, baby,
Just gotta get out, just gotta get right outta here.

Nothing really matters, Anyone can see,
Nothing really matters,
Nothing really matters to me.

Any way the wind blows.

Good Old-Fashioned Lover Boy

I can dim the lights and sing you songs full of sad things
We can do the tango just for two
I can serenade and gently play on your heart strings
Be your Valentino just for you

Ooh love - Ooh Loverboy
What're you doin' tonight, hey boy -
Set my alarm, turn on my charm
That's because I'm a good old-fashioned loverboy

Ooh let me feel your heartbeat (grow faster, faster)
Ooh Ooh let me feel your love heat
Come on and sit on my hot-seat of love
And tell me how do you feel right after-all
I'd like for you and I to go romancing

Say the word - your wish is my command
Ooh love - Ooh loverboy
What're you doin' tonight, hey boy
Write my letter
Feel much better
I'll use my fancy patter on the telephone
When I'm not with you
I think of you always
I miss you -
(I miss those long hot summer nights)
When I'm not with you
Think of me always
I love you - Love you

Hey boy where do you get it from
Hey boy where did you go?
I learned my passion in the good old
fashioned school of loverboys-
Dining at the Ritz we'll meet at nine precisely
I will pay the bill, you taste the wine
Driving back in style, in my saloon will do quite nicely
Just take me back to yours that will be fine (Come on and get it)

Ooh love, Ooh loverboy
What're you doin' tonight, hey boy -
Everything's all right
Just hold on tight -
That's because I'm a good old fashioned loverboy

I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)

When I wake up yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who wakes up next to you

When I go out yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who goes along with you

If I get drunk yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who gets drunk next to you

And if I haver yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's havering next to you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When I'm working yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's working hard for you

And when the money comes in for the work I'll do
I'll pass almost every penny on to you

When I come home yeah I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who comes back home to you

And if I grow old well I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man who's growing old with you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

When I'm lonely yes I know I'm gonna be
I'm gonna be the man whose lonely without you

When I'm dreaming yes I know I'm gonna dream
Dream about the time when I'm with you

But I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
Just to be the man who walked a thousand miles
To fall down at your door

Something About The Way You Look Tonight

Music by Elton John
Lyrics by Bernie Taupin

There was a time
I was everything and nothing all in one
When you found me
I was feeling like a cloud across the sun

I need to tell you
How you light up every second of the day
But in the moonlight
You just shine like a beacon on the bay

And I can't explain
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
It's that feeling I get about you, deep inside

And I can't describe
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
The way you look tonight

With your smile
You pull the deepest secrets from my heart
In all honesty
I'm speechless and I don't know where to start

And I can't explain
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
It's that feeling I get about you, deep inside

And I can't describe
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
The way you look tonight

And I can't explain
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
It's that feeling I get about you, deep inside

And I can't describe
But it's something about the way you look tonight
Takes my breath away
The way you look tonight

Life Is A Highway

Life's like a road that you travel on,
When there's one day here and the next day gone.
Sometimes you bend, sometime you stand,
Sometime you turn your back to the wind.
There's a world outside every darkened door,
Where blues won't haunt you anymore.
Where the brave are free and lovers soar.
Come ride with me to the distant shore.
We won't hesitate. Break down the garden gate.
There's not much time left today.

Life is a highway,
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.

Through all these cities and all these towns
It's in my blood and it's all around.

I love you now like I loved you then.
This is the road and these are the hands.
From Mozambique to those Memphis nights.
The Khyber Pass to Vancouver's lights.
Knock me down get back up again.
You're in my blood. I'm not a lonely man.

There's no load I can't hold.
Road so rough this I know.
I'll be there when the light comes in.
Tell 'em we're survivors.

Life is a highway,
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.

Life is a highway,
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.

There was a distance between you and I.
A misunderstanding once, but now,
We look it in the eye.

There's no load I can't hold.
Road so rough this I know.
I'll be there when the light comes in.
Tell 'em we're survivors.

Life is a highway,
I want to ride it all night long.
If you're going my way,
I want to drive it all night long.

(Repeat twice more)