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."
Got the disease in my mind that chaos runs through in you
Guilty toys for your insides
Just plead and I'll conduct you
Believe in me, I'm the juice
Receive from me the hand of truth
In still your trust I'll take you there
I penetrate and run through
Feel it so warm
Branded forearm
Synthetic high that drains you
Accelerated poles
Blood rush through
Branded forearm
Mudvayne returned
Inner mutiny lost tranquility
Broken people fixed again plumming christened with disorder
? took a spell to possess you
You embrace me for the high
Unfocused black swells as you die
Inner icon solicits sympathy
Departed being struggles so desperately
I'm so outside myself
Breathless body betrays my cry for help
Rest in earth,
Rest in peace
Await rebirth as I roll up my sleeve feel
Roll up my fuckin' sleeve
It so warm
Branded forearm
Masticate you as I cultivate through
You're life I loathe,
Motherfucker!
Scrambled being your impressions leaking
Sins been bastioned in you
Do what I do just to see through you
Your life is death now
Consequences been plowed under earth
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Want you dead so much
Guilty toys for your insides
Just plead and I'll conduct you
Believe in me, I'm the juice
Receive from me the hand of truth
In still your trust I'll take you there
I penetrate and run through
Feel it so warm
Branded forearm
Synthetic high that drains you
Accelerated poles
Blood rush through
Branded forearm
Mudvayne returned
Inner mutiny lost tranquility
Broken people fixed again plumming christened with disorder
? took a spell to possess you
You embrace me for the high
Unfocused black swells as you die
Inner icon solicits sympathy
Departed being struggles so desperately
I'm so outside myself
Breathless body betrays my cry for help
Rest in earth,
Rest in peace
Await rebirth as I roll up my sleeve feel
Roll up my fuckin' sleeve
It so warm
Branded forearm
Masticate you as I cultivate through
You're life I loathe,
Motherfucker!
Scrambled being your impressions leaking
Sins been bastioned in you
Do what I do just to see through you
Your life is death now
Consequences been plowed under earth
Ashes to ashes dust to dust
Want you dead so much
Lyrics submitted by innerfears16
Cultivate Lyrics as written by Greg Tribbett Chad L. Gray
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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.
Great version of a great song,
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