Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart is a song by Stone Temple Pilots, featured on their third album, Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop. An alternative rock tune, it was recorded between October–December 1995 and released as the album’s second single the following year in July 2, 1996. The track is also on the greatest hits album, Thank You. The core music was written by drummer Eric Kretz, while the lyrics were written by Scott Weiland. Weiland stated in a radio interview that the very ambiguous and mysterious lyrics to the song alluded to a “very bad experience dropping acid.” In his autobiography Not Dead and Not For Sale (its title a reference to the lyrics of Trippin’), he adds that it “reflects my hunger for redemption”
The band has had seven songs reach the number one position on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, with “Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart” being their fifth single to reach the top. In 1997, the song received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the Grammy Awards.
Tracklist:
- Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart
- Pop’s Love Suicide
- Ride the Cliché
Stone Temple Pilots
Scott Weiland: lead vocals
Dean DeLeo: guitar, bass
Robert DeLeo: bass, guitar
Eric Kretz: drums
Scott Weiland (October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015).
