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
Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart by Stone Temple Pilots Lyrics
Don’t cut out my paper heart
I ain’t dying anyway
Take a look at Eiffel towers
Never trust them dirty liars
Sipping lemon yellow booze
Old lead-belly sings the blues
All dressed up on wedding day
Keep on tripping anyway
I am, I am I said I’m not myself
But 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
Just a 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
But 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
But 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
But 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
But I’m not dead, and I’m not for sale
So keep your bankroll lottery
Eat your salad day, deathbed motorcade
Songwriters: Eric Kretz, Scott Richard Weiland, Dean De Leo, Robert De Leo
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).
