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."
Buried deep as you can dig inside yourself,
And covered with a perfect shell,
Such a charming beautiful exterior.
Laced with brilliant smiles and shining eyes
And perfect makeup but you're barely scraping by,
But you're barely scraping by.
This is one time
That you can't fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all.
And the grave that you refuse to leave
The refuge that you've built to flee
The places you have come to fear the most,
Is the places you have come to fear the most.
Buried deep as you can dig inside yourself,
And hidden in the public eye.
Such a stellar monument to loneliness.
Laced with brilliant smiles and shining eyes
And perfect makeup but you're barely scraping by, but you're barely scraping by.
This is one time
That you can't fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all.
And the grave that you refuse to leave
The refuge that you've built to flee
The places you have come to fear the most,
Is the places you have come to fear the most.
And covered with a perfect shell,
Such a charming beautiful exterior.
Laced with brilliant smiles and shining eyes
And perfect makeup but you're barely scraping by,
But you're barely scraping by.
This is one time
That you can't fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all.
And the grave that you refuse to leave
The refuge that you've built to flee
The places you have come to fear the most,
Is the places you have come to fear the most.
Buried deep as you can dig inside yourself,
And hidden in the public eye.
Such a stellar monument to loneliness.
Laced with brilliant smiles and shining eyes
And perfect makeup but you're barely scraping by, but you're barely scraping by.
This is one time
That you can't fake it hard enough to please everyone or anyone at all.
And the grave that you refuse to leave
The refuge that you've built to flee
The places you have come to fear the most,
Is the places you have come to fear the most.
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everyone pretty much understands the meaning of this song. on the outside you may fake a perfect exterior with intentions of pleasing everyone and be truly miserable in the inside. but you can't fake it for too long.. one day it'll kill you..
& you'll be alone, thus, the place that you have come to fear the most.
this song is awesome. and i think the song is exactly what everyone has said it is. and in a way, most people can relate to the song.
this song is about a girl that seems so perfect. she's beautiful and she's composed, but she's struggling on the inside but she hides it from everyone. deep inside she's hiding this secret, protecting it; but it's killing her inside. she's so lonely in being so hidden and closed off she can hardly handle it anymore. she's kept to herself to the point where she can no longer hide it and everyone knows her secret. it becomes obvious because she tries so hard to hide it.
this song is exactly how i am feeling right now..keeping everything inside till the point where i want to explode.......
this is.. the best song... i swear to god it could've been written about me. its about a girl (or boy i guess) who has managed to perfect a shell, an outer cover, to make it seem like they're happy, but they're really just falling apart. she's wearing this thin mask of fake joy, hoping to please everyone else, but she's just burying herself deeper and deeper inside of a lie. her appearance is wonderful, shes perky and sweet, cheerful and energetic, but at the end of the day she goes home and locks herself in her room to slice up her wrists and cry herself to sleep. (k, it doesnt actually refer to cutting, but still...) she tries to break free of the cheerleader exterior/horrible dying interior, but she cant, and she's not even sure if thats what she wants. it gets so horrible that shes afraid of her own self, and what she might (or could) do. .eliza.
WEll first of all everyone who signed this thing are all gay weiners and this is why. if you actually knew chris's music you would know that this is not even The Place You Have Come To Fear The Most the real song starts off this is where i say i have had enough. noone should ever feel the way that i feel now a walking open wound a trophy display of bruses.. soo the person to write this music keep your songs striaght
Sorry bud! But yur Thinkin of Saints and Sailors! I've also seen go by The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, but this is the real one! Teenage Suicide sorry to say but you need fukken help bad! You should try reading some self help books, cause yur one fuked broad fer shur!
Sorry bud! But yur Thinkin of Saints and Sailors! I've also seen go by The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, but this is the real one! Teenage Suicide sorry to say but you need fukken help bad! You should try reading some self help books, cause yur one fuked broad fer shur!
this song is about ellen. sigh
DBC is the best and i definitly like what teenagesuicide had to say. it doesnt matter if it goes with the song or not...but if u have any sort is intelligence, its what the song means to you, not what it means to everyine else, it can be intrepreted differently.