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."
Contemplating You is like a dream
I never want to wake up from what I finally see
Perfect circles turn in orbit
Following a perfect path from Your perfect hand
When I look into Your eyes
It's a world I can't believe
I can see my destiny
To be like You
Whispering fingertips
Leave Your fingerprints
All over everything
Contemplating You is like a dream
I never want to wake up from what I finally see
Perfect circles turn in orbit
Following a perfect path from Your perfect hand
Whispering fingertips
Leave Your fingerprints
All over everything
When I look into Your eyes
It's a world I can't believe
I can see my destiny
To be like You
Whispering fingertips
Leave Your fingerprints
All over everything
I never want to wake up from what I finally see
Perfect circles turn in orbit
Following a perfect path from Your perfect hand
When I look into Your eyes
It's a world I can't believe
I can see my destiny
To be like You
Whispering fingertips
Leave Your fingerprints
All over everything
Contemplating You is like a dream
I never want to wake up from what I finally see
Perfect circles turn in orbit
Following a perfect path from Your perfect hand
Whispering fingertips
Leave Your fingerprints
All over everything
When I look into Your eyes
It's a world I can't believe
I can see my destiny
To be like You
Whispering fingertips
Leave Your fingerprints
All over everything
Lyrics submitted by FlyleafLover
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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."
Gentle Hour
Yo La Tengo
Yo La Tengo
This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
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“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
WOW! I had know idea that she meant God! I thought it was about a love that wanted to cough cough with her (if you know what i mean) . The version I have is the same track as Sleepwalker. Oh my gosh. I'm really freaked out now.
haha, you don't have to be freaked out! actually, i had some SERIOUS trouble trying to figure out what this song was about too. my version is the same as yours, hehe... but no, as for the cough cough thing, it really isn't.
Hah, practically all of their songs have some type of connection to God and Flyleaf's faith. I haven't found any of their songs that don't have anything to do with God, actually. They just don't market themselves as a christian band because they don't want people to like them solely based on that fact.