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."
Let's keep this
Ever so quiet oh so quiet oh I like it alone
I'll wait for you forever
So
Loose fingers
Barely 18 and we're baring we're barely alone
Watch me fall
Watch me breaking your heart
'cos I am breaking your heart again now
This is the part at the end of act 1,
Where I turn to you and I say number one,
We're just getting started, we're just warming up
So I'll kiss you again and again and again
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
I could be,
Just like him, throw me a rope for my throat
Watch me fall
Watch me breaking your heart,
Breaking your heart again now
This is the part at the end of act one,
Where I turn to you and I say number one,
I'll wait for you forever so
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
I can count on you win or lose it's gonna drown us from inside
Save the escape, save the escape
And I'll kiss you again and again and again and again and again
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
Ever so quiet oh so quiet oh I like it alone
I'll wait for you forever
So
Loose fingers
Barely 18 and we're baring we're barely alone
Watch me fall
Watch me breaking your heart
'cos I am breaking your heart again now
This is the part at the end of act 1,
Where I turn to you and I say number one,
We're just getting started, we're just warming up
So I'll kiss you again and again and again
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
I could be,
Just like him, throw me a rope for my throat
Watch me fall
Watch me breaking your heart,
Breaking your heart again now
This is the part at the end of act one,
Where I turn to you and I say number one,
I'll wait for you forever so
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
I can count on you win or lose it's gonna drown us from inside
Save the escape, save the escape
And I'll kiss you again and again and again and again and again
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
So young, so wrong
I fall in love, but no never in grace
So young, so wrong
We're counting the stars, we're counting the stars
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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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"I could be just like him, I'm dying Throw me a rope for my throat Watch me fall (watch me fall) Watch me breaking your heart 'cause I'm breaking your heart again" he hung himself?
"Now this is the part at the end of act one Where I turn to you and I say number one I'll wait for you forever" He thinks she is number one, but she doesnt feel the same yet. so he will wait for her forever. OR the end of act one could mean his death, and he waited for her forever, but for him, forever didnt last long.
i really dont know because in other parts of the song, he sings about kissing her and she can count on him