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."
These tire tracks
zigzag your torso like the devil's self portrait
the car accident, the skin graft treatment, the flower baskets, the wincing relatives
You bid her farewell then you got in your car
and that's the last thing that you can recall
and when they pulled you out, you didn't know your name, exploding semi truck blurred your face with flame
You met Jane four years ago today, dancing at some vomit stained frat party
her newspaper gown, her flashing headline brown, her violent gypsy dance, her tired underpants
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Rhymes with pity now
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Rhymes with sympathy now
Jane let you touch her and feel her and she was so free like a pineapple in a tree but
You said it's dangerous to be so intimate, you know it's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous
Jane said when she laid on her back the sun hit her body like an ugly landscape but
Some things never get better,
Like used cars and bad livers,
So you traded her in for a better looking brand
One with fake porno tits,
A padlock on her lips
A disposable tan
Biodegradable hands
And back at the hospital you got no visitors at all, but she visits you in your sleep, and that Newspaper gown is always on fire (x2)
She met him a week after you left her
When you tossed out her touch to the garbage collector.
He talked her out of her skirt in his beer-soaked apartment
And then they did all the things
You never said that you wanted.
And the sirens are laughing underneath your skull
And your thoughts are turning dull, callous and cold
Yesterday you gave your burden a name
Yesterday you gave your burden a face
And that burden, looks an awful lot like her
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
rhymes with pity now
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Rhymes with symathy now
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Oh
zigzag your torso like the devil's self portrait
the car accident, the skin graft treatment, the flower baskets, the wincing relatives
You bid her farewell then you got in your car
and that's the last thing that you can recall
and when they pulled you out, you didn't know your name, exploding semi truck blurred your face with flame
You met Jane four years ago today, dancing at some vomit stained frat party
her newspaper gown, her flashing headline brown, her violent gypsy dance, her tired underpants
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Rhymes with pity now
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Rhymes with sympathy now
Jane let you touch her and feel her and she was so free like a pineapple in a tree but
You said it's dangerous to be so intimate, you know it's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous
Jane said when she laid on her back the sun hit her body like an ugly landscape but
Some things never get better,
Like used cars and bad livers,
So you traded her in for a better looking brand
One with fake porno tits,
A padlock on her lips
A disposable tan
Biodegradable hands
And back at the hospital you got no visitors at all, but she visits you in your sleep, and that Newspaper gown is always on fire (x2)
She met him a week after you left her
When you tossed out her touch to the garbage collector.
He talked her out of her skirt in his beer-soaked apartment
And then they did all the things
You never said that you wanted.
And the sirens are laughing underneath your skull
And your thoughts are turning dull, callous and cold
Yesterday you gave your burden a name
Yesterday you gave your burden a face
And that burden, looks an awful lot like her
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
rhymes with pity now
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Rhymes with symathy now
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Love
Oh
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No Surprises
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Just A Little Lovin'
Dusty Springfield
Dusty Springfield
I don't think it's necessarily about sex. It's about wanting to start the day with some love and affection. Maybe a warm cuddle. I'm not alone in interpreting it that way! For example:
"'Just a Little Lovin’ is a timeless country song originally recorded by Eddy Arnold in 1954. The song, written by Eddie Miller and Jimmy Campbell, explores the delicate nuances of love and showcases Arnold’s emotive vocals. It delves into the universal theme of love and how even the smallest gesture of affection can have a profound impact on our lives." https://oldtimemusic.com/the-meaning-behind-the-song-just-a-little-lovin-by-eddy-arnold/
Magical
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
How would you describe the feeling of being in love? For Ed Sheeran, the word is “Magical.” in HIS three-minute album opener, he makes an attempt to capture the beauty and delicacy of true love with words. He describes the magic of it all over a bright Pop song produced by Aaron Dessner.
This is my favorite song off the new cd. I think its about a guy who was in a relationship with a girl and then he left her for someone else he thought was more attractive. Soon after he was in a car accident, which completely maimed him. The girl who he chose over the original one then left him because of this. Now as he lies alone and disfigured in a hospital bed, he realizes the mistake he made and he wish he could go back, but its too late.
This song is so amazingly good. All of the new album is good. Such a catchy song. I talk in very small sentances. clap clap
Hmm, I hate when it does it twice.
yeah Alucard is right
the dude dumbed the girl for a better looking chick then got in a car accident
PS. this song makes me clap and wanna do a dance
Why wouldn't he do anything sexually with the first girl?
Not only was there the whole problem of him leaving this girl and taking a new girl.. But he is replaced by some guy he obviously looks lowly on. Which would probably why they chose a garbage-collector for the character? beer-stained apartment. Just not the best of people--And he got Jane, whom obviously was a good girl.. But not as attractive as number two.
"And the sirens are laughing underneath your skull. And your thoughts are turning dull, callous and cold." The accident haunts him, it is turning him cold.. Making him a rather dark person.
This song has such a depressing mood to it, so it kind of makes me angry when I see people saying they want to dance to it?
It is also my favorite song off of Crimes.
Oh--And it's sad that it takes the character being injured so severely to realize his love.
"Love Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck" such a suiting title.
i love how slutty they both sound when they sing this song.
But your burden looks an awful lot like her.
it just sounds so damn slutty.
This song is amazing...The meanings basically been said...only thing is the lyrics...he says love 12 times, not 9. = )
Johnny's vocals are so friggen high on the new album...especially this song.
fixed :)