Plush lyrics by Stone Temple Pilots

The song's chord structure was inspired by DeLeo's love of ragtime music, and its lyrics were loosely based on a newspaper article Weiland had read about a who had been found in an area outside of San Diego. Weiland has also said that the song's lyrics are a metaphor for a failed relationship.

I thought it was a bout the cheating girlfriend. She'll come home and smell like she's ben out with someone and not alone.

This song to me has always seemed to indicated an abduction of a child, a girl. I think the song is written from a man's point of view, a man who has seen in a vision what has happened, and is trying to explain this to the police, but is getting ignored. He is stating that time is a wasted go, meaning, that waiting to find the girl alive is pointless, as she is about to die if the police don't listen. He has discovered a mask, that the abductor used, but the police only care about the obvious evidence, rather than this man's vision. He goes on to say when the dogs they find her, got time to wait till tomorrow, to find it (the murder weapon). Will she smell alone, meaning, will there be other girls they will find along with her, as well, dead. The pain the man expresses is that by the time she is found, the police will have plenty of time... it will already be too late.