In regards to the meaning of this song:
Before a live performance on the EP Five Stories Falling, Geoff states “It’s about the last time I went to visit my grandmother in Columbus, and I saw that she was dying and it was the last time I was going to see her. It is about realizing how young you are, but how quickly you can go.”
That’s the thing about Geoff and his sublime poetry, you think it’s about one thing, but really it’s about something entirely different. But the lyrics are still universal and omnipresent, ubiquitous, even. So relatable. That’s one thing I love about this band. I also love their live performances, raw energy and Geoff’s beautiful, imperfectly perfect vocals. His voice soothes my aching soul.
Friends are friends until they see gold
Friends are friends until they grow old
Friends are friends who reach out their hands
and before the arson take what they can
Making out like we overcome this life
Skeletons in the closet locked deep inside
Who holds the key I need to know, who holds the key
Friends are friends until they drive drunk
Friends are friends who are locked in my trunk
Friends are friends until they have sex
Complicate the pregnancy test
Reaching forward to overcome this life
Skeletons in the closet locked deep inside
Who holds the key I need to know
Who holds the key, I need it!
Caress the summer, where friends are weeds
Curse the summer, who choke on me
Caress the sdummer, I've fallen asleep
Curse the summer, to the sound of screams
in a moment I'll cross this hill
To find my life is in pieces
Cause in a moment my secret spills and Jill knows the end of my mind
Reaching out to you overcome this life
She might have held the key.....fuck
Friends are friends until they grow old
Friends are friends who reach out their hands
and before the arson take what they can
Making out like we overcome this life
Skeletons in the closet locked deep inside
Who holds the key I need to know, who holds the key
Friends are friends until they drive drunk
Friends are friends who are locked in my trunk
Friends are friends until they have sex
Complicate the pregnancy test
Reaching forward to overcome this life
Skeletons in the closet locked deep inside
Who holds the key I need to know
Who holds the key, I need it!
Caress the summer, where friends are weeds
Curse the summer, who choke on me
Caress the sdummer, I've fallen asleep
Curse the summer, to the sound of screams
in a moment I'll cross this hill
To find my life is in pieces
Cause in a moment my secret spills and Jill knows the end of my mind
Reaching out to you overcome this life
She might have held the key.....fuck
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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.
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wow- no one has commented this. anyways.. i think this is one of my favorite lovedrug songs. it's sad, the lyrics suggest that you can never really know someone. that you can be friends with a person, but you never really know when it will be over. "friends are friends until...". and then in a moment someone finds out his secret.
this song is talking about how time, jealousy and greed can change people. The song is talking about how when the guy lost his friends due to drunk driving, he turned to the pothead crowd and one of the girls found out his secret and that she might tell on him because she is greedy for money "friends are friends until they seek gold". The song also talks about how his friends changed overtime "friends are friends until they grow old". The basic theme of the song is friends and how they change...and that's all i can tell right now.
sorry for the other comment i posted. it's kinda wrong and the website wont let me delete it. here are the right interpretations:
in the same party, the guy got drunk, had sex with his best friend and drove drunk. Obviously he had an accident and that's how his friends dead bodys ended up in his trunk. The girl who he had sex with tho, is still alive and now he is afraid that since she is greedy for money, she might tell on him. The basic theme of the song is friends and how certain events can change people.
I think that the lyrics perhaps shouldn’t be taken so literally. There are usually a lot off metaphors in lovedrugs lyrics, e.g “Friends are friends until they drive drunk” Could mean something more along the lines off drunk from the love of a girl. I hadn’t heard this song before tonight so I can’t be sure.