STP
Song Name: STP
Album: Robbin' the Hood
Released: 02.27.1994
Written By: Bradley Nowell
Recording Session: Westbeach Recorders - Hollywood, CA - 06.10.1993 & 06.28.1993
Also Appears On: Chiva Kenevil | STP Demo | 6 fl oz. | 13 fl oz. | [Date Rape CD Single | Board in Orange County Sampler | Sublime - Compilation | Stand By Your Van | Everything Under The Sun
All that I need
Look at all the love we've found
I won't run and pull the one jack move
They love her for the Kingston sound
Flava-Flav and I-C-E
Once said something that made me[1]
Want to burn my liquor store down to the ground
But I just can't leave the pad
Cause I'll surely wind up dead
Cause I know there out there out there waiting and watching for me[2]
Still I got my yellow cat
And my wooden baseball bat
And my shiny silver gat
And if my homie got my back then I got...
All that I need
Look at all the love we've found
I won't run and pull the one jack move
They love her for the Kingston sound
I won't slip, and I won't trip
Send Matt Vargas[3] to regrip[4]
While I'm wrenchin' on my ride
In that secret pad[5] where we hide
There's always lotsa fun stuff to do
Like relax and design a brand new tattoo
Play with my crossword puzzle book
I'm even learning how to cook (crack that is)
Have you seen that little whore Betty?
Someone said she stole my freddy[6]
And if she made off with my last clean rig[7]
I'm gonna kill that fuckin' ditch pig
So what?
Outta my, outta my, outta my, outta my secret pad
Cause I know you're talkin' about me, makin' it hard to live
Cause I don't want no money fee, don't want no money down
My secret tweaker[8] pad is now the hottest spot in town I guess
Take it nice and easy
Don't want no sheriff breakin' down the door to raid me
Cause...
All that I need
Look at all the love we've found
I won't run and pull the one jack move
They love her for the Kingston sound
Baby you wanna give me kisses sweet
Only for one night with no repeat
Baby you wanna leave and never go
But the taste of honey is worse than none at all[9]
Samples
- "I Second That Emotion" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
Music Video
- Music video directed by friend and former co-band manager Greg Abramson
- Filmed at the Band's infamous Secret Tweaker Pad
- Robbin' the Hood cover featuring Opie Ortiz is lifted off a scene at the end of the music video
References
- ↑ Only Out for One Thang - Ice Cube feat. Flava Flav
- ↑ Paranoia is symptom of methamphetamine
- ↑ Guitar player of punk band Long Beach ALLDAY. Brother to former Sublime drummer, Kelly Vargas.
- ↑ Regrip with reality. Matt Vargas was supposedly the friend who lived/had a connection to the mental institution that Raleigh Theodore Sakers was said to have been in and recorded the rants heard on Robbin' the Hood
- ↑ The band's store-front turned rehearsal space and living quarters on Anaheim and Ohio in Long Beach. Brad, Brent French, and Jack Maness all lived here during the Robbin' the Hood era
- ↑ A name for a person's drug of choice
- ↑ Syringe
- ↑ A methamphetamine addict
- ↑ Verse taken from "I Second That Emotion" by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles
