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."
There were worsd of lust
in these arms of the stranger
And there in silence though were words of no milder
So in thinking of that madness
thet ravage the houghts
in the lonliest of hours
I resist without control
The demand i get from excellence
the void I felt from answering
Not only an addition
it generated need
In these endless nights of frezzing
my weight on the other side
I resist without control
Fell the thethorns of UnControl
Claws the set in sleeps' December
let loose on the verge
Talked to me as strangers once did
The tone was set for winter
Sweet UnControl
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
Iresist without control
Feel the thethorns of UnControl
The death thet craved no life
now ended
in return
Drifting uncontrolably
Within the night
Sweet UnControl
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
in these arms of the stranger
And there in silence though were words of no milder
So in thinking of that madness
thet ravage the houghts
in the lonliest of hours
I resist without control
The demand i get from excellence
the void I felt from answering
Not only an addition
it generated need
In these endless nights of frezzing
my weight on the other side
I resist without control
Fell the thethorns of UnControl
Claws the set in sleeps' December
let loose on the verge
Talked to me as strangers once did
The tone was set for winter
Sweet UnControl
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
Iresist without control
Feel the thethorns of UnControl
The death thet craved no life
now ended
in return
Drifting uncontrolably
Within the night
Sweet UnControl
Beyond proportion
Into the night
So strike me deeper
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