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• This gospel-rocking album closer was brought to the table by bassist Robert DeLeo. As with the other songs on Stone Temple Pilots, vocalist Scott Weiland penned the lyrics. Guitarist Dean DeLeo told MusicRadar about it: "This is Robert's song and I think he wanted to combine different worlds. If you listen to the backbeat and check out what the bass and drums are doing, the drums are very distorted, very big and broken up, as is the bass. Yet the rest of the song is very beautiful and ethereal. Great piano playing too. And then Scott wrote this gorgeous and very dramatic story about a girl who goes to San Francisco. She wants to be a star and puts all her money on the ponies. He's an amazing storyteller. This song really shows us off all the way. I love it!"
• Weiland's lyrics on Stone Temple Pilots differ from the STP's previous albums, which tended to focus on himself and his drug addictions. He told Artist Direct that he feels that he's grown as a lyricist, explaining: "[In] the '90s, I was so overwhelmed with my heroin addiction, and so a lot of the stuff was just from my point of view. Now, I tend to look at some of the greats like Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. I look at their storytelling. I try to tell stories. Every song doesn't have to be narcissistically written about how I feel on that day."