Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart
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| Single by Stone Temple Pilots from the album Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop |
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| B-side | "Pop's Love Suicide" "Ride the Cliché" |
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| Released | 1996 | |||||||||||||
| Format | CD single | |||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1996 | |||||||||||||
| Genre | Hard rock | |||||||||||||
| Length | 2:56 | |||||||||||||
| Label | Atlantic | |||||||||||||
| Writer(s) | Music: Eric Kretz Lyrics: Scott Weiland |
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| Producer | Brendan O'Brien | |||||||||||||
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"Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" (sometimes simply called "Trippin' on a Hole") is a song by Stone Temple Pilots, featured on their third album, Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop.
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[edit] Composition and meaning
The core music was actually written by the band's drummer Eric Kretz, while the lyrics were written by Scott Weiland. Although many fans have different interpretations of the lyrics, Weiland directly stated in a radio interview that the very ambiguous and mysterious lyrics to the song actually alluded to a "very bad experience dropping acid."
[edit] Music video
The music video is made up of various shots. They include the band in front of a Mighty Joe Young statue (Mighty Joe Young was their original name), the band jumping on a trampoline, and singer Scott Weiland singing in slow motion.
[edit] Awards and accolades
The band has had six songs reach the number one position on the Mainstream Rock Tracks, "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" was the last song by the band to reach the top. In 1997, it was nominated for Best Hard Rock Performance at the Grammy Awards, an award the band won in 1994 for the song "Plush."
[edit] Appearances of the song
The song is featured in the video game Guitar Hero II', and its successor Guitar Hero Mobile.
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