“Not necessarily their most impressive song from a technical standpoint, but it embodies everything that makes rock (and STP) so great.
“She was a happy girl the day she left me” etc.” “She was a sour girl the day that she met me”. I find this song to be a pleasant tale of a bad relationship. The music video brings back a lot of memories of growing up when it was released with the weird telly tubby things in it. “This song pissed off a lot of old-time STP with its more mellow and poppy sounding touch. I think Scott Weiland loves writing these kind of double meaning lyrics–“too much trippin and my soul/sole s worn thin”…” The name itself “Still Remains” has two completely different meanings… one is love still being there and the other is someone’s dead body. “I think a lot of it is about the person you loving dying. See more: Stone Temple Pilots Albums Ranked Who is Lady Picture Show and why is she hiding behind her bedroom door? Weiland explained in his memoir Not Dead & Not For Sale: “ is about the horrific gang rape of a dancer who winds up falling in love but can’t let go of the pain.” “Scott Weiland was in the throes of heroin addiction when he wrote the lyrics to this song, which is why the subject matter is so morose. Lady Picture Show ( Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop, 1996) These words convey desperation to me, the lovely thing is, and this is what I love about Stone Temple Pilots, is that the music itself is very freeing and purposeful.”ġ2. I think that a lot of the lyrics that Scott writes are just words placed on the page with only half-a-mind given to some sort of story or meaning.
“This song feels like the need to escape to me. He is also asking her if she loves him as much as he loves her and is in the will to do anything for him, “Will you follow me down now, down now”. He gives her very high regards and compares her to holy Sunday and been awaiting this day for a long time, “Ya, I’ve been waiting for my Sunday girl”. “This is song is about marriage proposal and the girl saying yes, “You’re all mine now”.
It won’t get old, yet seems like it has always ‘been’ there once you’ve discovered it.” One of those timeless pieces that could have been either written 50 years ago or last week.
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