Pop Song 211 'Interstate Love Song' Stone Temple Pilots 1994

Pop Song 211 'Interstate Love Song' Stone Temple Pilots 1994

Bassist Robert DeLeo brought in a song he had been working on when Stone Temple Pilots convened at Cole Rehearsal Studios in Hollywood, California in March 1992. His brother, guitarist Dean DeLeo, said, "We were in Atlanta touring Core, and Robert was playing around with the chords and the melody in a hotel room. I had a feeling about that song immediately." Robert DeLeo stated it was originally a bossa nova song when he began writing it. When he played it for singer Scott Weiland, the vocalist started humming along and turned what was originally the melody for the song's intro into a chorus melody. The song borrows chords directly from Jim Croce's 1973 song "I Got a Name

According to Weiland, the song was about the troubles he was having with his girlfriend, Jannina, saying, "The words are about the lies I was trying to conceal while making the Purple record".[8][9][10] "She'd ask how I was doing, and I'd lie, say I was doing fine," he wrote in his autobiography Not Dead and Not For Sale. "I imagined what was going through her mind when I wrote, 'Waiting on a Sunday afternoon for what I read between the lines, your lies, feelin' like a hand in rusted shame, so do you laugh or does it cry? Reply?'"