Big Bang Baby

"Big Bang Baby"
Single by Stone Temple Pilots
from the album Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop
Released:	March 23, 1996 March 19, 1996 (CD Single)
Stone Temple Pilots single chronology Interstate Love Song (1994) Big Bang Baby (1996) Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart (1996)
Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop tracklist
Press Play Pop's Love Suicide Tumble In The Rough Big Bang Baby Lady Picture Show And So I Know Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart Art School Girl Adhesive Ride The Cliché Daisy Seven Caged Tigers

Versions

Note: Only the date of the very first release of each version is listed.

Studio

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
Big Bang Baby	Tiny Music... Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop Big Bang Baby Thank You	3:23	October 1995 - January 1996	March 26, 1996
Big Bang Baby (Instrumental)	Wicked Synch Sampler	3:21	October 1995 - January 1996	May 1, 2008	Official instrumental version.

Live

Title	Album	Length	Recorded	Released	Notes
Big Bang Baby	Thank You		November 25, 1996	November 11, 2003	Bootleg Footage (audience recording). Recorded live at the Madison Square Garden in New York, NY on November 25, 1996. DVD only.

Lyrics

Album Version

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
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 cry, 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
Yeah it's only black and white
Because the world is color blind
Does anybody know how the story really goes
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 cry, but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

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

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
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 cry, but I gotta laugh
Orange crush mama is a laugh, laugh, laugh

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

So turn it up and burn it
There's a hole in your head
A hole in your head
Where the birds can't sing along
Does anybody know how the story really goes
How the story really goes
Or do we all just hum along