1. Desperation #5
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(Request) The first song i wrote was Desperation #5. I had all this detox medicine in me. I was slow and lethargic, and i just start writing this riff on guitar..[This song] also refers to the downward trajectory of drug dependancy.
2. Barbarella
(Detail's) "On barbarella, the first single he sings 'i'll stay at home cause i'm the mouse' He explains: 'I didn't want to show my face anywhere. Like, heroin was my only friend.
4. Where's the Man
(details) "He cranks 'Where's the Man' a song he wrote about kicking heroin cold turkey. As it soars from Neil Young-style verse to anthemic chorus, Scott break's it down: 'as i get behind the wheel again' means I'm taking control. 'You know I lied but/If it makes you glad/I'll tell you what you want to hear' is when I first realized what a liar and a thief I was becoming" (Request) Where's the man is a veiled refrence to Weiland the Addict's loss of identity.
6. Cool Kiss
(details) The abrasive, highly sexed "cool Kiss" is about a stripper scott hung out with after he and his wife seperated. It wasn't really an affair; they were both so loaded they couldn't have sex. "I think she's dead now," Scott informs me.
7. The Date
(details) His wife broke up with him in August. The day she took off, scott wrote and recorded "the date," a desperate plea that ends in an avalanche of I love you's. (Request) 'That's the most personal song on the album, 'cause I wrote it the day my wife and I seperated', he says. 'I came to the studio the day after and put down all the tracks in two and a half hours. I was very drunk when I recorded it, I was very sad, but it was the best I could do.' [Weiland then put's on "the date"] Over the din of the song's tribal death march, Weiland recites significant lyrical passages, then discusses the origin of the song: 'We would have a date night every week when we would watch movies, eat dinner, and always have sex, and I started blowing it. She would wait for me on date night, and I wouldn't come.'
8. Son
(details) I said, "What is that? It's beautiful". He said, "Well, while I was in rehab I was thinking about how I've wasted the last three years of my life not watching my son grow up and how I would love to be a part of his life again." It just made me cry, and I wrote the words thinking "What is it like to be a father?" I've gone through three different abortions with girlfriends, and it really took a lot out of me. So I sang this to the child I never had. It is a tender piano lullabye with an aching country-guitar lick that recalls the music young Scott used to hear on the radio in the summertime when he drove around with his father.
10. Lady, Your Roof Brings Me Down
(Atlantic Digital Press Kit) " I ended up writing the melody and writing the lyrics . . . In a sense kind of around the theme of unrequited love . . . Ya know that's basically what one of the themes of the book are (is) about . . . So I think it's pretty well . . . (trails off) "
12. Opposite Octive Reaction
(details) "i had my first orgy at twelve. I had a pony at a stable where a lot of girls boarded horses. One day a group of us started fooling around." The story got out and Scott was considered a pervert at school (an experience he recalls on "Opposie Octive Reaction").