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."
[Jayo Felony]
G to the you to the A-G-E
Feel the pump, on my set
Felon ego make everybody jump
Your ass never seen the inside of a cellar
A million dolla nigga bailin in Chuck Taylor's
you want to stop the gangsta shit it ain't happenin
Jumping out the fo' hittin switches then I'm cappin
Rolling through the set with blue rollers in a grudge
There's two of my best homies gotta face the judge
Take the best deal let the mutherfucker spit out
[ ? untranslated ? ]
I keep all your books on fat, it's a hooker for some skeezers
Let your crops sprout like Jesuses
I'm coming from the S-T-are double-E-T
Some pimp hoes jack fools and slang keys
Get me a chicken cut it up into 36 pieces
Then serve it to your nephews and nieces
You stepped on the wrong toe so let's clown
Back up off my gangsta rap nuts you can't get a G down
Chorus: Jayo Felony
The parole violator is coming from the perpetrator
If you dissing gangsta rap you gets the pipe (4X)
It ain't time to preach fool it's time to fight
[Jayo Felony]
Fuck all that preaching that shit can't save us(yeah)
Let my afro grow like Angie Davis
Ain't shit you can say to let my g ?? back
I'm letting off on my enemy ain't showing no slack
It's a fact all snitches need to be thrown in ditches
I sweat a loc for calling hooker hoe bitches
Your girl introduced us she said you couldn't see him
Until I hopped my ass in the motherfuckin BM
Now your on my nuts and my dick your suckin
Come in my room 2 o'clock in the morning were gonna be fuckin
No kissin me, no pictures and no concert tickets
Just a big ??? come lick it
Go ahead and call ?? I got the hoe on tape
And I was fuckin her so I'm straight
Tyson got railroaded for fuckin with them clowns
And he'll be the first to tell you
you can't keep a G down
Chorus
[Jayo Felony]
I'm a G with no fuckin direction
Just a ass full of dope and a strap for my protection
Cutting bricks up slanging the rocks that i was holdin
Gotta keep the flow up to keep with the jones
Until the whole block dried up I was full of bank
And now we 40 deep in the motherfuckin holding tank
California youth authority is my next trip
Skinheads and eses to the bloods n crips
4 o clock in the morning with my shank
As I creep, comin like Freddy Kruger fool don't fall asleep
After too many years,they straight paroled me
You'll be back in two weeks the fuckin inmates told me
In your cell you dropped your fuckin noodles
You was on it when you scene me on the screen
and not on for Most Wanted
Now you want to play that rule but you'se a clown
You can't keep a G down
Chorus
G to the you to the A-G-E
Feel the pump, on my set
Felon ego make everybody jump
Your ass never seen the inside of a cellar
A million dolla nigga bailin in Chuck Taylor's
you want to stop the gangsta shit it ain't happenin
Jumping out the fo' hittin switches then I'm cappin
Rolling through the set with blue rollers in a grudge
There's two of my best homies gotta face the judge
Take the best deal let the mutherfucker spit out
[ ? untranslated ? ]
I keep all your books on fat, it's a hooker for some skeezers
Let your crops sprout like Jesuses
I'm coming from the S-T-are double-E-T
Some pimp hoes jack fools and slang keys
Get me a chicken cut it up into 36 pieces
Then serve it to your nephews and nieces
You stepped on the wrong toe so let's clown
Back up off my gangsta rap nuts you can't get a G down
Chorus: Jayo Felony
The parole violator is coming from the perpetrator
If you dissing gangsta rap you gets the pipe (4X)
It ain't time to preach fool it's time to fight
[Jayo Felony]
Fuck all that preaching that shit can't save us(yeah)
Let my afro grow like Angie Davis
Ain't shit you can say to let my g ?? back
I'm letting off on my enemy ain't showing no slack
It's a fact all snitches need to be thrown in ditches
I sweat a loc for calling hooker hoe bitches
Your girl introduced us she said you couldn't see him
Until I hopped my ass in the motherfuckin BM
Now your on my nuts and my dick your suckin
Come in my room 2 o'clock in the morning were gonna be fuckin
No kissin me, no pictures and no concert tickets
Just a big ??? come lick it
Go ahead and call ?? I got the hoe on tape
And I was fuckin her so I'm straight
Tyson got railroaded for fuckin with them clowns
And he'll be the first to tell you
you can't keep a G down
Chorus
[Jayo Felony]
I'm a G with no fuckin direction
Just a ass full of dope and a strap for my protection
Cutting bricks up slanging the rocks that i was holdin
Gotta keep the flow up to keep with the jones
Until the whole block dried up I was full of bank
And now we 40 deep in the motherfuckin holding tank
California youth authority is my next trip
Skinheads and eses to the bloods n crips
4 o clock in the morning with my shank
As I creep, comin like Freddy Kruger fool don't fall asleep
After too many years,they straight paroled me
You'll be back in two weeks the fuckin inmates told me
In your cell you dropped your fuckin noodles
You was on it when you scene me on the screen
and not on for Most Wanted
Now you want to play that rule but you'se a clown
You can't keep a G down
Chorus
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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.
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