Still Remains

Album: Purple (1994)
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Songfacts®:

  • STP lead singer Scott Weiland wrote this song about Janina Castaneda, who he would later marry. It's a romantic song about being so engrossed in a person that you want to be with them in death - Weiland even wants to drink her bath water.
  • What Weiland called "The mish-mash state of the music business" was an influence on this track. He said in his autobiography, "Everyone seemed to be living or dying but making real money."
  • STP bass player Robert DeLeo and his brother, guitarist Dean DeLeo, wrote the music for this track. Robert cites it as one of his favorites.
  • If you should die before me ask if you could bring a friend

    Slipknot's Corey Taylor said during a Reddit AMA the above lyric is the one he wishes above all others he could have penned.

Comments: 3

  • Cj from Canada"If you should die before me ask if you could bring a friend" is one of the finest lyrics ever written, period.
  • Bruno Cassel Duarte from Brazilone of their greatest II
  • Grayson Billings from Arizonaone of their greatest
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