Lady Picture Show is a song by the rock band Stone Temple Pilots. It was the second single released from their third album, Tiny Music… Songs from the Vatican Giftshop. The single album was released on November 18, 1996. It was one of three tracks on this album to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. The song, Scott Weiland writes in his autobiography Not Dead and Not For Sale, “is about the horrific gang rape of a dancer who winds up falling in love but can’t let go of the pain.”
“Lady Picture Show” also appears on Thank You, a greatest hits compilation released in 2003. It was also used in the unaired pilot episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer during the scene where Buffy is at The Bronze.
Lady Picture Show by Stone Temple Pilots Lyrics
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom wall
She hides because she don’t know nothin’
Don’t know nothin’ anymore
She keeps a funny face, it’s locked
And bagged, it’s just outside the door
She doesn’t know her name
She doesn’t know her face
She doesn’t know her name
She doesn’t know her face
Lady picture girl
I think them boys don’t like your show
Lady picture show them
Boys are gone, should just say no
Your wedding present’s
Not so daisy picture perfect anymore
Lady funny face, it’s locked and bagged
It’s just outside the door
She doesn’t know her name
She doesn’t know her face
She doesn’t know her name
She doesn’t know her face
Let them believe
Let them believe
Let them believe
She doesn’t know her name
She doesn’t know her face
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom door
Lady picture show
She hides behind the bedroom wall
She hides because she don’t know nothin’
Don’t know nothin’ anymore
She keeps a funny face
It’s locked and bagged, it’s just outside the door
She doesn’t know her name
She doesn’t know her face
She doesn’t know her name
She doesn’t know her face
Let them believe
Let them believe
Let them believe
Songwriters: Eric Kretz, Dean Deleo, Scott Weiland, Robert Deleo
The music video was directed by Josh Taft. The video is presented as an old film peep show; rendered nearly completely in black-and-white. Throughout the video, the band can be seen playing in a white room, with objects such as bubbles and shiny diamonds. Various shots of exotic dancers are seen dancing around the screen as well, along with shots of the band members playing. During Dean DeLeo‘s notable solo, the screen turns into the fuzzy color structure which was a trademark of the 1960s. The segment shows Dean playing in a colorful meadow, and then the video then fades back into black and white for the rest of the video.
Stone Temple Pilots
Scott Weiland: lead vocals
Dean DeLeo: guitar, bass
Robert DeLeo: bass, guitar
Eric Kretz: drums, percussion
Scott Weiland (October 27, 1967 – December 3, 2015).
