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."
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Yeah!
There ain't nothing to it
With the friend I keep it cool with
Love it, we been through it
Sticking like glue, now chew it
Bad girls, hands up
Ride or die and we feel it
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
If you can't then screw it
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh
I'ma need you like your best bless dem
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh
(Go best friend, go best friend)
I'ma squeeze you like my best friend
You can be my best friend
You know too much to be a foe
You were there from before
In the days when I had no doe
Break bread, watch Breaking Bad
Always there when I breakup bad
In bed, feeling so sad
You were always there as a comrade
I know you think like me
Life ain't easy for the people like we
Say life's a box of chocolates
We say who packed it, do you feel me?
What you do's none of my business
But I want you to make me a witness
Wanna witness the greatness?
Cause we best friends through health and sickness
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh
(You can be my foreing friend yea yea
You can be my foreign friend)
I said as a refugee, you know
Where we come from, we get out our tent
Then we climb over the fence
We don't wanna cause an offence
Then we get a Benz, flat screen tv, and we pay rent
Then we think we made it
Then we be your foreign friend
Best friend, can't condemn
If you give her you are banned
Partner defend till the end
All people depend on a friend
There's nothing to it
With the friend I keep it cool with
Fuck it, we been through it
We sticking like glue, now chew it
Bad girls, hands up
Ride or die and we feel it
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
If you can't then screw it
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh
I'ma need you like your best bless dem
I'm gonna
Gonna be your best friend
Then I'm gonna
Gonna make that shit trend
Gonna gonna
When you live in your hands
Cause me and you hanging
It could be gasping, yea
I'ma treat you like my best friend
(Go best friend, go best friend)
(Go best friend, go best friend)
Yea
You can be my foreign friend yea yea
You can be my foreign friend
Come down to my if you condone, again
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh oh oh
Yeah!
There ain't nothing to it
With the friend I keep it cool with
Love it, we been through it
Sticking like glue, now chew it
Bad girls, hands up
Ride or die and we feel it
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
If you can't then screw it
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh
I'ma need you like your best bless dem
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh
(Go best friend, go best friend)
I'ma squeeze you like my best friend
You can be my best friend
You know too much to be a foe
You were there from before
In the days when I had no doe
Break bread, watch Breaking Bad
Always there when I breakup bad
In bed, feeling so sad
You were always there as a comrade
I know you think like me
Life ain't easy for the people like we
Say life's a box of chocolates
We say who packed it, do you feel me?
What you do's none of my business
But I want you to make me a witness
Wanna witness the greatness?
Cause we best friends through health and sickness
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh oh
(You can be my foreing friend yea yea
You can be my foreign friend)
I said as a refugee, you know
Where we come from, we get out our tent
Then we climb over the fence
We don't wanna cause an offence
Then we get a Benz, flat screen tv, and we pay rent
Then we think we made it
Then we be your foreign friend
Best friend, can't condemn
If you give her you are banned
Partner defend till the end
All people depend on a friend
There's nothing to it
With the friend I keep it cool with
Fuck it, we been through it
We sticking like glue, now chew it
Bad girls, hands up
Ride or die and we feel it
Pull me closer if you think you can hang
If you can't then screw it
Gonna be your best friend
Gonna make that shit trend
I'm gonna be your foreign friend
All the way to the end
I'ma treat you like my best friend
Oh oh oh oh
I'ma need you like your best bless dem
I'm gonna
Gonna be your best friend
Then I'm gonna
Gonna make that shit trend
Gonna gonna
When you live in your hands
Cause me and you hanging
It could be gasping, yea
I'ma treat you like my best friend
(Go best friend, go best friend)
(Go best friend, go best friend)
Yea
You can be my foreign friend yea yea
You can be my foreign friend
Come down to my if you condone, again
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Foreign Friend Lyrics as written by Maya Arulpragasam Louis Anthony Grandison
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