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."
If you sexy and you know it
And you sexy and you show it
Lemme see you get your hands in the air
If you sexy and you know it
And you sexy and you show it
Just wave em' like you just don't care
We don't need no clothes for this
They be on the floor for this
All up on the pole for this
Dropping down low for this
All up on the side with this
All between her thighs with this
Imagine how she ride with this
Wait 'til I'm inside with this oh, oh
I know it's turning you on, on
Didn't think it take us this long, long
To have our bodies going crazy to the beat of this song, oh
We get it on, ah ah all night long
To this sex music, sex music
Don't stop, that's it, right there, that's my shit
To this sex music, sex music
We got plenty time for this
All that's on my mind for this
All day on the grind for this
Ima make you mine to this
Patron and a lime with this
Hope you get right to this
'Gon and close your eyes to this
Love the way you bite your lip
I know it's turning you on, on
Didn't think it take us this long, long
To have our bodies going crazy to the beat of this song, oh no
We get it on, ah ah all night long
To this sex music, sex music
Don't stop, that's it, right there, that's my shit
To this sex music, sex music
Gurl I love your birthday suit
Sho' looks good on you
I just wanna lick you from head to toe
Ima having you screaming oh, oh
Baby take this ride,
Got me gased up all night
Push the petal down to the flo'
Wit that sex music on the radio
We get it on, ah ah all night long
To this sex music, sex music
Don't stop, that's it, right there, that's my shit
Sex music, sex music
Sex, sex, sex music (oh oh oh)
Sex, sex, sex music (oh, ah, oh)
And you sexy and you show it
Lemme see you get your hands in the air
If you sexy and you know it
And you sexy and you show it
Just wave em' like you just don't care
We don't need no clothes for this
They be on the floor for this
All up on the pole for this
Dropping down low for this
All up on the side with this
All between her thighs with this
Imagine how she ride with this
Wait 'til I'm inside with this oh, oh
I know it's turning you on, on
Didn't think it take us this long, long
To have our bodies going crazy to the beat of this song, oh
We get it on, ah ah all night long
To this sex music, sex music
Don't stop, that's it, right there, that's my shit
To this sex music, sex music
We got plenty time for this
All that's on my mind for this
All day on the grind for this
Ima make you mine to this
Patron and a lime with this
Hope you get right to this
'Gon and close your eyes to this
Love the way you bite your lip
I know it's turning you on, on
Didn't think it take us this long, long
To have our bodies going crazy to the beat of this song, oh no
We get it on, ah ah all night long
To this sex music, sex music
Don't stop, that's it, right there, that's my shit
To this sex music, sex music
Gurl I love your birthday suit
Sho' looks good on you
I just wanna lick you from head to toe
Ima having you screaming oh, oh
Baby take this ride,
Got me gased up all night
Push the petal down to the flo'
Wit that sex music on the radio
We get it on, ah ah all night long
To this sex music, sex music
Don't stop, that's it, right there, that's my shit
Sex music, sex music
Sex, sex, sex music (oh oh oh)
Sex, sex, sex music (oh, ah, oh)
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