Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
"There's a part - 'Cash in now honey, cash in Miss Smith.' Miss Smith is my Mother; our last name was Smith. Cashing in when she cashed in her life. So... she decided that, to her... at that time, she was desperate. Life wasn't worth it for her, that was her opinion. Some people think, never take your life, and some people find that their life isn't worth living. She was in love with my Dad, and my Dad was not faithful to her, and it broke her heart. She was very desperate and she did something that I know she regrets."
Now I'm sheddin' my skin ya gotta listen to me ill tell ya what I
See never believe what you read the shit is spreadin' like a disease
Never feel withdrawn time to move on get your groove on say
Goodbye everything must die solidify and fly to a new level a place where love
Is unconditional physical and non-denominational
Like a snake shed my skin leave my past where
I've been...can you feel what I feel to hold on must be killed
Don't cry over what's been spilled, can you feel what I feel?
Yeah Yeah, Yeah you! Can you feel what I feel?
Yeah Yeah, Yeah you! Can you feel what I feel?
See the kid rock bumpin' up and down
Your block with no cares long hair swingin' middle
Fingers in the air people stare n point I hit
The joint and laugh - kiss my ass, the past is
More than 10 years I've known from a complete
Unknown to the hot zone, million dollar home
And a diamond ring never thougt I'd amount to
A damn thing, I'm the man sing like Curtis
May mack on ho's like Ruby Ray, its been a
Long time comin' but you know what's happenin'...
Straight pimpin' I'm sitting five times platinum
Like a snake shed my skin leave my past where
I've been...can you feel what I feel to hold on must be killed
Don't cry over what's been spilled, can you feel what I feel?
Yeah Yeah, Yeah you! Can you feel what I feel?
Yeah Yeah, Yeah you! Can you feel what I feel? =2x
See never believe what you read the shit is spreadin' like a disease
Never feel withdrawn time to move on get your groove on say
Goodbye everything must die solidify and fly to a new level a place where love
Is unconditional physical and non-denominational
Like a snake shed my skin leave my past where
I've been...can you feel what I feel to hold on must be killed
Don't cry over what's been spilled, can you feel what I feel?
Yeah Yeah, Yeah you! Can you feel what I feel?
Yeah Yeah, Yeah you! Can you feel what I feel?
See the kid rock bumpin' up and down
Your block with no cares long hair swingin' middle
Fingers in the air people stare n point I hit
The joint and laugh - kiss my ass, the past is
More than 10 years I've known from a complete
Unknown to the hot zone, million dollar home
And a diamond ring never thougt I'd amount to
A damn thing, I'm the man sing like Curtis
May mack on ho's like Ruby Ray, its been a
Long time comin' but you know what's happenin'...
Straight pimpin' I'm sitting five times platinum
Like a snake shed my skin leave my past where
I've been...can you feel what I feel to hold on must be killed
Don't cry over what's been spilled, can you feel what I feel?
Yeah Yeah, Yeah you! Can you feel what I feel?
Yeah Yeah, Yeah you! Can you feel what I feel? =2x
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This is a great song!
why did tommy lee form a new band. Fucking methods of mental retardation he shoulda called it.
this could have been a huge song, however the kid rock bragging really brought it down, if tommy wrote another verse like the first, this cd would have gotten more exposure. let kid rock boast on his own cds, best song on the cd otherwise
hella bad