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."
And loves light blue
Led me to you
Through all the emptiness that had become my home
Love's lies cruel
Introduced me to you
And that moment I knew I was out of hope
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
For dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Love's icy tomb
Dug open for you
Lies in a cemetery that bares my name
Love's violent tune
From me to you
Rips your heart out and leaves you
Bleeding with a smile on your face
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
For dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Loves light blue
Took me from you
And that moment I knew I was out of hope
Again
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
For dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Love said no
And love said no
Led me to you
Through all the emptiness that had become my home
Love's lies cruel
Introduced me to you
And that moment I knew I was out of hope
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
For dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Love's icy tomb
Dug open for you
Lies in a cemetery that bares my name
Love's violent tune
From me to you
Rips your heart out and leaves you
Bleeding with a smile on your face
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
For dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Loves light blue
Took me from you
And that moment I knew I was out of hope
Again
Kill me
I begged and love said no
Leave me
For dead and let me go
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Kill me
I cried and love said no
Love said no
And love said no
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And Love Said No Lyrics as written by Ville Hermanni Valo
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Personally I see this song in the form of Love playing a cruel joke on a person who's deeply in love with someone he/she can't exactly have.
The first verse is explaining the layout of the story (we'll go with a male for now as the hopeless romantic). He has finally found his match, but sadly for reasons unknown he can't have her. "Love lies cruel" means that he feels like Love has pulled a nasty joke on his heart, making him feel the way he does for this other person. He realized over time that there was no hope of this love happening. Maybe they were together before, who knows.
The chorus then explains that since he can't have the person he yearns for, he feels that Love will become the death of him. He pleads for death but he simply can't bring himself to it. He doesn't feel right on this earth, and would prefer to die than go on feeling the way he does.
The second verse shows that apathy is settling in. Since he has no hope, the love he had for this person is buried deep in his heart which he refers to as an icy tomb. No love, no reason to have a kind, caring heart. Love had made this person notice him as another cruel joke (Love's violent tune, from me to you..), but without that kind, loving heart inside of him, there's no reason to feel love for him so this person gives up on that thought.
In the end where it goes, "Love's light blue took me from you, and at that moment I knew that I was out of hope again," I believe that this is portraying the end of a tragedy. The man has become apathetic in his loss of hope for love, and the person he yearned for walked away without a second thought. He feels that love returning upon realizing that she walked away, but it's too late and there's no longer hope for that love.
I might be wrong, but that is what I pulled from the lyrics and I can strongly relate to this.
I think it
s about surviving from love...Love destroys people, but somehow they suvive... Very beautiful!...Same as every Valo
s song...Many people find themselves in them@LadyHeartagram That's how I feel about it especially after losing someone after 5 years. Everything was all fine than she just disappears and nevers comes back.
This is one of the new songs off of the And Love Said No CD, (Along with Solitary Man). This is just another wonderful song to add to the collection of all of the great HIM songs out there. There's also suppose to be a video for this song in the near future.
This is one of my favorite HIM songs. As to what the song's about, And the name says it all.
i absolutly love this song it is my favorite song and it is hims best singles yet...a must for the true him fan
Finally a new song that can match their older ones. This one is awesome.
I red an interview with Ville Valo a few days ago where he said that this song is the most personal to him at the moment. And "that the lyrics we're a story about a relationship that doesn't work that well. About losing all hope about the future when it comes to love & romance, but in some way find the right person in the end of the tunnel.." [I translated it from swedish] Well, what Valo said is how I see the lyrics & the song. Glad that I understood it :)..
melts Valo is a sexy piece of fucking ass.. and so is this song <3
Just put "she" or "he" where it says love... and I do have to agree with Valo this is the fucking saddest and best song ever done by him... I was in the fucking music store with a girl i like and i just about cried i had to stop it and run out... its the best song ever
AAARRRRGGGGHHHH This fucking song is on the radio all the time at work. It makes me want to jump out of a window, it is just that wank.