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."
sioux day moving along inside a promise a temptation not a now day not a year day but a sioux day
sioux day moving along inside a promise a temptation not a now day not a year day
iron horse tearing across the prairie like a slaughtering breath exhalation
a hissing whisper arm upreaching grasping and bleeding
iron horse tearing across the prairie like a slaughter
you say a soul flame is burning out somewhere in a deep black space but i do not believe
mahpiua luta a red cloud the united states of america mahpiua luta red cloud the united states of america
sioux day moving along inside let's have
kills everything around me i am dead
kills everything around me i am dead
swollen our mother's rivers run fast with blood the sound of water over rocks is no longer music
the sound of water over the rocks is no longer music it kills
it kills everything around me i am dead
kills everything around me i am dead
my eyes merged with the bullseye
it's on the end of the fire pit
it kills everything around me and i am dead around me i am dead
sing when my time comes i will be falling downstream but i do not believe i will
you say a beaten woman is sinking between sea to shining sea but i do not believe the manifest destiny
or genocide if you want to be obvious
sioux day moving along inside a promise a temptation not a now day not a year day iron horse tearing across the prairie like a slaughtering breath exhalation a hissing whisper arm upreaching grasping and bleeding or genocide if you want to be obvious genocide if you want to be obvious genocide if you want to be obvious
you want to be obvious genocide manifest destiny mahpiua luta a red cloud the united states of america a red cloud the united states of america
swollen rivers run fast with blood and the water over the rocks is no longer music the swollen rivers run red fast with blood the sound of water over the rocks is no longer music
kills everything around me i am dead swollen swollen swollen swollen swollen the rivers run fast with blood the sound of water over the rocks is no longer music kills everything around me i am dead. sioux day. mahpiua luta. a red cloud. the united states of america.
sioux day moving along inside a promise a temptation not a now day not a year day
iron horse tearing across the prairie like a slaughtering breath exhalation
a hissing whisper arm upreaching grasping and bleeding
iron horse tearing across the prairie like a slaughter
you say a soul flame is burning out somewhere in a deep black space but i do not believe
mahpiua luta a red cloud the united states of america mahpiua luta red cloud the united states of america
sioux day moving along inside let's have
kills everything around me i am dead
kills everything around me i am dead
swollen our mother's rivers run fast with blood the sound of water over rocks is no longer music
the sound of water over the rocks is no longer music it kills
it kills everything around me i am dead
kills everything around me i am dead
my eyes merged with the bullseye
it's on the end of the fire pit
it kills everything around me and i am dead around me i am dead
sing when my time comes i will be falling downstream but i do not believe i will
you say a beaten woman is sinking between sea to shining sea but i do not believe the manifest destiny
or genocide if you want to be obvious
sioux day moving along inside a promise a temptation not a now day not a year day iron horse tearing across the prairie like a slaughtering breath exhalation a hissing whisper arm upreaching grasping and bleeding or genocide if you want to be obvious genocide if you want to be obvious genocide if you want to be obvious
you want to be obvious genocide manifest destiny mahpiua luta a red cloud the united states of america a red cloud the united states of america
swollen rivers run fast with blood and the water over the rocks is no longer music the swollen rivers run red fast with blood the sound of water over the rocks is no longer music
kills everything around me i am dead swollen swollen swollen swollen swollen the rivers run fast with blood the sound of water over the rocks is no longer music kills everything around me i am dead. sioux day. mahpiua luta. a red cloud. the united states of america.
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"'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."
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what album did this song come out on?