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."
Storming through the dark with a broken heart
All alone at it once again
Seeping in like a feeling
You haven't felt since way back when
In the dead of that night
Like the summer of Sam
I got word of the promotion
You caused me a telegram
And got all worked up
We got all worked up
[Chorus: ]
I found a way
Through the fear and through the flames
I'm diving in, don't follow me
Stay right here, I'll be back for you someday
I found a way
It'd be best if you just stayed
It's not safe, don't follow me
I found a way
I found a way
Frozen in the lights of a locomotive
Tied to the tracks again
You said you haven't felt this comatose
Since you can't remember when
Fly off the handle every time
We sleep straight off with it
[Chorus: ]
Oh whoa
Oh whoa
From the top of my lungs
The truth shall be sung
Sharp and damning
Violently stabbing at secrecy
That look on your face
It's more than I can take
It scaring the living hell shit out of me
[Chorus: ]
I found a way
I found a way
All alone at it once again
Seeping in like a feeling
You haven't felt since way back when
In the dead of that night
Like the summer of Sam
I got word of the promotion
You caused me a telegram
And got all worked up
We got all worked up
[Chorus: ]
I found a way
Through the fear and through the flames
I'm diving in, don't follow me
Stay right here, I'll be back for you someday
I found a way
It'd be best if you just stayed
It's not safe, don't follow me
I found a way
I found a way
Frozen in the lights of a locomotive
Tied to the tracks again
You said you haven't felt this comatose
Since you can't remember when
Fly off the handle every time
We sleep straight off with it
[Chorus: ]
Oh whoa
Oh whoa
From the top of my lungs
The truth shall be sung
Sharp and damning
Violently stabbing at secrecy
That look on your face
It's more than I can take
It scaring the living hell shit out of me
[Chorus: ]
I found a way
I found a way
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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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Blue
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“Blue” is a song about a love that is persisting in the discomfort of the person experiencing the emotion. Ed Sheeran reflects on love lost, and although he wishes his former partner find happiness, he cannot but admit his feelings are still very much there. He expresses the realization that he might never find another on this stringed instrumental by Aaron Dessner.
Amazing
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I love this song, to me it feels that maybe its about being broken hearted and finding a way around it, makes me feel better =]
Honestly I believe the song is about Dante Alichieri. He was an Italian poet who wrote Dante's Inferno (The Divine Comedy). At the beginning of the song is a passage from the poem, the passage is from the very beginning where Dante find's himself in the Dark Wood of Error. Dante eventually takes an immortal journey through Hell, even though he is still alive. The voyage is made possible by God with the intercession of Beatrice, a women, now residing in heaven after her early death, whom Dante loved. Her concern for Dante's lost state of mind leads her to ask Virgil, a poet of ancient Rome, to lead him back to goodness of spirt by going through Hell and relinquishing his sins.
P.S. The beginning passage is wrong. It isn't entirely wrong because it has many different interpertations but he correct passage in the song is as follows:
Midway on our life's journey I found myself in the dark woods The right way lost To tell about those woods is hard So tangled and rough And savage that thinking of it now I feel the old fear stirring
From the top of my lungs The ** shall be sung
The missing word is truth. The other one sounds like "I cowered, oh, the commotion" or something like that. o_O
"I caught word of the commotion" I think is correct
This song is awesome. :)
The "infernal reading on track 5" is a reading of Canto I of The Inferno by Dante.
This particular translation is that of Robert Pinsky:
csupomona.edu/~jelerma/dante/index.html
i think its more like ive found away, as in i found away. not an actual way, but away, away from people an escape.
this song is awesome my favorite on the cd so far
Its supposed to be I found away, Alkaline trio likes to use plays on words (good mourning etc) so they want it to sound like I found a way but they're meaning it like they're getting away. Also like most of their songs, its using one thing as a metaphor for troubled relationships etc. in this case they're using dantes inferno
this song definately isn't failed relationships, haha. Matt took up transcending meditation(?)(I totally fuckin butchered that) so hes using dantes inferno to talk about his personal trip to hell and back, and how hes "Found Away." He can escape it now, so to speak