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."
[Scream] Collipark, Hanh!
Cheeya
Mike Jones! WHO! Mike Jones [Jones]
Holla at cha boy baby, you killed it on this one man, Cheeya
We got Ying Yang Twins and Mike Jones in the house tonight! Yo yo.
Collipark n Swisha house and his bitch, check it out, yo, yo, yo, Lets Go!
[Chorus]
I'm lookin' for a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
I need a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
You want this money then you gotta be a
Bad bitch
Shake that ass for the tip if you a
Bad bitch
Drop it down to the floor if you a
Bad bitch
O no she ain't no hoe, she just a
Bad bitch
[Verse 1]
I'm in the club, lookin' for a
Bad bitch
In the parkin' lot, lookin' for a
Bad bitch
Everywhere I go I'm trying to find a
Bad bitch
You know me I gotta keep me a
Bad bitch
Freak in the morning, freak in the evening
I'm looking for a freak when I'm done block bleedin
Now take me to her house, tease me, then please me
and tell all her friends dick made her sleepy, and believe me, when I'm up in that im beattin it,
givin' ya that Mike Jones' threatment
I could tell by the way she walk that she got it
body so deadly, you can tell when she dropped it
I gonna go hit her on the beat ass tight
I'm seen her walk by me, damn near passed out
Then crept up behind her, tell her it was time ta,
Let a playa like me get in her vagina
[Chorus]
I'm lookin' for a dine that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
I need a dine that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
You want this money so you gotta be a
Bad bitch
Shake that ass for the tip of your
Bad bitch
Drop it down to the floor if you a
Bad bitch
O no she ain't no hoe, she just a
Bad bitch
[Verse 2]
She's a ghettoass bitch, with some ghettoass game,
in the clubs where she work n she poppin' that thing
said the bread keep her fed n the head at the bar
She could never breath on a nigger nigger make him come,
Come one! Come one! Come all! Come all!
where them hoes like to get buck and bone
And the can't take all tha drowers'
Aint Standin there, nigger no
I know the way she dance, she look like she fuckin' herself
Shawty do a number just touching herself
Freaky ways she can shake ass for days
gettin kinky in sixty-nine different ways
Jump onstage she gettin pays going off
You got enough money she taking the clothes off
Look at that, I tought I taw a putty tat
I did I did I did
I taw a putty tat
[Chorus]
I'm lookin' for a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
I need a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
You want his money so you gotta be a
Bad bitch
Shake that ass for the tip of your
Bad bitch
Drop it down to the floor if you a
Bad bitch
O no she ain't no hoe, she just a
Bad bitch
[Verse 3]
Bitch mooove, like you got something to prove
Keep running you dick sucka hoe you going to lose
I don't wanna hear 'bout your motherfucking blues
i'd rather see ya ass clap clap in them shoes
Right
Damn Damn Damn Damn
Wham Wham Wham Wham
I tought I taw a puttytat
shawty gettin' crunk love gettin' low
Everywhere she take it to the flo'
Make a booty roll take her clothes off
With teeth little smokin weed
As she getting hella freaky on that ecstacy
Or dance for me song after song
shawty won't stop she goes all night long
and thas a girl who know what she want and like
she a schoolgirl by day and a stripper by night
[Chorus]
I'm lookin' for a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
I need a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
You want his money so you gotta be a
Bad bitch
Shake that ass for the tip of your
Bad bitch
Drop it down to the floor if you a
Bad bitch
O no she ain't no hoe, she just a
Bad bitch
Cheeya
Mike Jones! WHO! Mike Jones [Jones]
Holla at cha boy baby, you killed it on this one man, Cheeya
We got Ying Yang Twins and Mike Jones in the house tonight! Yo yo.
Collipark n Swisha house and his bitch, check it out, yo, yo, yo, Lets Go!
[Chorus]
I'm lookin' for a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
I need a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
You want this money then you gotta be a
Bad bitch
Shake that ass for the tip if you a
Bad bitch
Drop it down to the floor if you a
Bad bitch
O no she ain't no hoe, she just a
Bad bitch
[Verse 1]
I'm in the club, lookin' for a
Bad bitch
In the parkin' lot, lookin' for a
Bad bitch
Everywhere I go I'm trying to find a
Bad bitch
You know me I gotta keep me a
Bad bitch
Freak in the morning, freak in the evening
I'm looking for a freak when I'm done block bleedin
Now take me to her house, tease me, then please me
and tell all her friends dick made her sleepy, and believe me, when I'm up in that im beattin it,
givin' ya that Mike Jones' threatment
I could tell by the way she walk that she got it
body so deadly, you can tell when she dropped it
I gonna go hit her on the beat ass tight
I'm seen her walk by me, damn near passed out
Then crept up behind her, tell her it was time ta,
Let a playa like me get in her vagina
[Chorus]
I'm lookin' for a dine that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
I need a dine that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
You want this money so you gotta be a
Bad bitch
Shake that ass for the tip of your
Bad bitch
Drop it down to the floor if you a
Bad bitch
O no she ain't no hoe, she just a
Bad bitch
[Verse 2]
She's a ghettoass bitch, with some ghettoass game,
in the clubs where she work n she poppin' that thing
said the bread keep her fed n the head at the bar
She could never breath on a nigger nigger make him come,
Come one! Come one! Come all! Come all!
where them hoes like to get buck and bone
And the can't take all tha drowers'
Aint Standin there, nigger no
I know the way she dance, she look like she fuckin' herself
Shawty do a number just touching herself
Freaky ways she can shake ass for days
gettin kinky in sixty-nine different ways
Jump onstage she gettin pays going off
You got enough money she taking the clothes off
Look at that, I tought I taw a putty tat
I did I did I did
I taw a putty tat
[Chorus]
I'm lookin' for a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
I need a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
You want his money so you gotta be a
Bad bitch
Shake that ass for the tip of your
Bad bitch
Drop it down to the floor if you a
Bad bitch
O no she ain't no hoe, she just a
Bad bitch
[Verse 3]
Bitch mooove, like you got something to prove
Keep running you dick sucka hoe you going to lose
I don't wanna hear 'bout your motherfucking blues
i'd rather see ya ass clap clap in them shoes
Right
Damn Damn Damn Damn
Wham Wham Wham Wham
I tought I taw a puttytat
shawty gettin' crunk love gettin' low
Everywhere she take it to the flo'
Make a booty roll take her clothes off
With teeth little smokin weed
As she getting hella freaky on that ecstacy
Or dance for me song after song
shawty won't stop she goes all night long
and thas a girl who know what she want and like
she a schoolgirl by day and a stripper by night
[Chorus]
I'm lookin' for a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
I need a dime that's top of the line
Cute face lil waist with a big behind
You want his money so you gotta be a
Bad bitch
Shake that ass for the tip of your
Bad bitch
Drop it down to the floor if you a
Bad bitch
O no she ain't no hoe, she just a
Bad bitch
Lyrics submitted by hornbogen34
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