Song Title: Big Bang Baby

Running time: 3:21
music by: Robert DeLeo
words by: Scott Weiland
available on: Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop [March 26, 1996, Album]; Big Bang Baby [March 26, 1996, Single]

Recorded at: Westerly Ranch, Santa Ynez, Ca by Nick DiDia
Produced and mixed by: Brendan O'Brien

Robert DeLeo: Bass, Backing Vocals
Dean DeLeo: Guitars, Six-String Bass
Scott Weiland: Vocals
Eric Kretz: Drums, Percussion
Hand claps by: Robert, Eric, Brendan, Steve Stewart and Gena Rankin

Robert: On this song we recorded drums outside on the lawn. We practised so many different recording techniques at the house in Santa Barbara. Because we lived together, it was so much more creative, a real nice vibe.

Dean: The house in Santa Barbara was amazing. I liked the communal living thing - eating together, laughing together. I dig that vibe, and that's what we had going on there. I remember Robert playing that riff in the middle section. Most of the time we had our mouths shut lyrically and let Scott run with the lyrics and melody. It's always nice to get it back with a larger return than you expect. This time Scott came back with something really touching. To have your music embellished upon like that, there's no questions asked. He did a beautiful job, just beautiful. This song is the heartbeat of the record for me.

I got a picture of a photograph
Of a wedding and a shell
It's just a burning aching memory
I never kiss and tell

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
There's a hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along

Does anybody know how the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along?

Sell your soul and sign an autograph
Big bang baby, it's a crash, crash, crash
I wanna die, but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

Spin me up, spin me, spin me out
Station to station send me up and out
is that what life and love is all about
I think I think so

We used to see in color
Now it's only black and white
It's only black and white
Because the world is color blind

Nothing's for free,
nothing's for free
Take it away boys
Nothing's for free,
nothing's for free
Take it away boys