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I just could not believe
That so much could be achieved
Are you for real?
Were you for real?
I caught you by the throat
And tried to squeeze
But you weren't real
You were not real
Turn your boat you stow away
It's better there here's not okay
I'm sorry it's so far away
You break your back for little things
Like compliments and wedding rings
I hate that little song you sing
That song you sing
[Chorus:]
Turn your boat you stow away
It's better there here's not okay
I'm sorry you're far away
Turn your boat around you stow away
Seems you can't stop making sound
But nothing I can't read about
Your 2 cents fall right on the ground
Right on the ground
[Chorus:]
Turn your boat you stow away
It's better there here's not okay
I'm sorry it's so far away
Turn your boat around you stow away
I just could not believe
So much could be achieved
Are you for real?
Were you for real?
Cause you don't listen
You never listen
You don't listen
You don't listen
I've caught you by the throat and tried to squeeze
But you weren't real
You were not real
Why'd I never listen
[Chorus:]
Turn your boat you stow away
It's better there here's not okay
I'm sorry we're so far away
I'm sorry we're so far away
I'm sorry we're so far away
That so much could be achieved
Are you for real?
Were you for real?
I caught you by the throat
And tried to squeeze
But you weren't real
You were not real
Turn your boat you stow away
It's better there here's not okay
I'm sorry it's so far away
You break your back for little things
Like compliments and wedding rings
I hate that little song you sing
That song you sing
[Chorus:]
Turn your boat you stow away
It's better there here's not okay
I'm sorry you're far away
Turn your boat around you stow away
Seems you can't stop making sound
But nothing I can't read about
Your 2 cents fall right on the ground
Right on the ground
[Chorus:]
Turn your boat you stow away
It's better there here's not okay
I'm sorry it's so far away
Turn your boat around you stow away
I just could not believe
So much could be achieved
Are you for real?
Were you for real?
Cause you don't listen
You never listen
You don't listen
You don't listen
I've caught you by the throat and tried to squeeze
But you weren't real
You were not real
Why'd I never listen
[Chorus:]
Turn your boat you stow away
It's better there here's not okay
I'm sorry we're so far away
I'm sorry we're so far away
I'm sorry we're so far away
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Crossburner Lyrics as written by Greg Puciato Ben Weinman
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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."
Mountain Song
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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."
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
I think this is a song about a women that desires commitment and attention, but can't commit herself. The first verse seems like he's questioning if this woman is too good to be true and he finds out that she isn't truthful or committed. The chorus opener: "Turn your boat you stow away" could reference her escape plan when/if the relationship doesn't work out. The second verse confirms her desire for commitment and attention: "You break your back for little things, Like compliments and wedding rings." And how it bothers him and her repetitive hypocrisy makes him hate her. "I've caught you by the throat and tried to squeeze, But you weren't real" could mean that she didn't expect anything emotional or expect a two-way relationship and so even if he tried to hurt her emotionally, she wasn't all that invested and couldn't really be hurt. "I'm sorry we're so far away" is just explaining their vast difference in personality and views of how a relationship should work.
I sense an existential conflict here, a constant theme in Greg's lyrics. Specifically, the internal restlessness that comes from having explored Christianity as an escape from one's own chaotic mind, only to find out there's not a place for them in that world either...
Turn your boat you stowaway It’s better there here’s not okay I’m sorry it’s so far away You break your back for little things Like compliments and wedding rings I hate that little song you sing That song you sing
I think the word It's is actually wound like "what's better here..." To me, this means the feeling of confusion and frustration that comes from realizing all that you've come to know is better for you in this world is not ok in the eyes of God.
Furthermore, the perspective of God that sees us toiling for our own little comforts that we see as so important which to him he hates and means nothing.
Maybe Im projecting my own experiences into the song, thru that lens it makes perfect sense to me.