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."
Remains lay smoking
Crawling little by little I can hardly breathe
Unprotected exposed to the numbing conditions I feel no pain
Falling in the snow, dazed and confused, paralyzed with fear, huddled
Together for warmth in the
Trees, where are the lights, where is help, only the silence oh oh
Help me
Still the sky was empty
Freezing fog decended,
And the snow began to fall
Silence was an enemy, more hated than the cold
So we whispered stories to help us forget
Then out of the sky, came the lights, two tiny lights, I wanted to kiss
The Earth and the stars, no
Cruel mirage, a distant visage, the silence had broken
Out of the sky, came the lights, out of the night out of the fear,
Came the strength, strength to live
Out of the sky, came the lights, lights of life out of the fear,
Came the strength, strength to live
Out of the sky, came the lights, lights of life
"It was my birthday, the day they found me now I am one week old
My life from this
Moment begins again"
Out of the sky came the lights, out of the night out of the fear
Came the strength, strength to live,
Live to love out of the sky, came the lights, lights of life out
Of the fear, came the strength,
Strength to live, live to love, strength to live, live to love out
Of the sky, came the lights, lights of
Life out of the the fear, came the strength, strength to live
Out of the sky came the lights, lights
Of life out of the fear , came the strength, strength to live
Out of the sky, came the lights, lights
Of life
Crawling little by little I can hardly breathe
Unprotected exposed to the numbing conditions I feel no pain
Falling in the snow, dazed and confused, paralyzed with fear, huddled
Together for warmth in the
Trees, where are the lights, where is help, only the silence oh oh
Help me
Still the sky was empty
Freezing fog decended,
And the snow began to fall
Silence was an enemy, more hated than the cold
So we whispered stories to help us forget
Then out of the sky, came the lights, two tiny lights, I wanted to kiss
The Earth and the stars, no
Cruel mirage, a distant visage, the silence had broken
Out of the sky, came the lights, out of the night out of the fear,
Came the strength, strength to live
Out of the sky, came the lights, lights of life out of the fear,
Came the strength, strength to live
Out of the sky, came the lights, lights of life
"It was my birthday, the day they found me now I am one week old
My life from this
Moment begins again"
Out of the sky came the lights, out of the night out of the fear
Came the strength, strength to live,
Live to love out of the sky, came the lights, lights of life out
Of the fear, came the strength,
Strength to live, live to love, strength to live, live to love out
Of the sky, came the lights, lights of
Life out of the the fear, came the strength, strength to live
Out of the sky came the lights, lights
Of life out of the fear , came the strength, strength to live
Out of the sky, came the lights, lights
Of life
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