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."
We are damned and we are dead
All God's children to be sent
To our perfect place in the sun
And in the dirt
There's a windshield in my heart
We are bugs so smeared and scarred
And could you stop the meat from thinking
Before I swallow all of it
Could you, please?
Put me in the motorcade
Put me in the death parade
Dress me up and take me
Dress me up and make me your dying God
Angels with needles
Poke through our eyes
And let the ugly light
World in
We were no longer blind
We were no longer blind
Put me in the motorcade
Put me in the death parade
Dress me up and take me
Dress me up and make me your dying God
Now we hold the "ugly head"
The Mary-whore is at the bed
They've cast the shadow of our perfect death
In the sun and in the dirt
All God's children to be sent
To our perfect place in the sun
And in the dirt
There's a windshield in my heart
We are bugs so smeared and scarred
And could you stop the meat from thinking
Before I swallow all of it
Could you, please?
Put me in the motorcade
Put me in the death parade
Dress me up and take me
Dress me up and make me your dying God
Angels with needles
Poke through our eyes
And let the ugly light
World in
We were no longer blind
We were no longer blind
Put me in the motorcade
Put me in the death parade
Dress me up and take me
Dress me up and make me your dying God
Now we hold the "ugly head"
The Mary-whore is at the bed
They've cast the shadow of our perfect death
In the sun and in the dirt
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hmmm...i think this song is about jfk's death...and the line " a place in the sun and the dirt" means that we go to "heaven" (sun) and we're buried...i really like the line " angels with needles...poked through our eyes...let the ugly light of the world in..." i think it means some sort of "benevolent" creature/or whatever let us see what the world is and letting us see our own mortality...maybe the "angel" is acid...lol
The dirt line is saying that there is no real afterlife in heaven, I think. Life ends with death.
The needle's could either refer to drug use or just a very small halo (i.e., Target Audience, "and my halo was a needle hole) signifying a small amount of morality, or a cruel angel.
Existentialism smells good at Five in the Morning
HOLY WOOD isnt just about JFK. its about JFK, Abraham Lincoln, Christ, The Columbine shooting, and the concept of all of them fitting into human nature its self. and its the final chapter in the Antichrist trilogy consisting of Antichrist Superstar, Mechanical Animals, and HOLY WOOD, mixed together in a certain order to where they tell a very clear story. heres a link to all the details of the ACT chiburi.home.mindspring.com/ac_trilogy/
this song is written for us to know that when we die, we are burried in a perfect place in the sun. all the darkness of life is then no more. in the end people forget about the dead, so the shadow of memories remains over our grave in the sun in the dirt.
i think its about how we arent perfect or good and how fucked death and life really is.
no satan in blue!dont do that...this gal is a liar!
I'm not sure if I really put much faith in this interpretation, but I should at least put it forth, ne? ^^ On the Mary-whore lyric...there was another Mary in the Bible that was quite close to Jesus: Mary Magdalen, a prostitute. It could possibly refer to that Mary instead of Madonna Virgin Mary. shrugs
This song is about the death of JFK.
"Put me in the motorcade put me in the death parade dress me up and take me dress me up and make me your dying god"
Reminds me of the Coma White video... I don't know much about the death of JFK, or politics in general, but it seems like the American people made him into some kind of martyr when he was asassinated. This seems to be a theme in "Holy Wood".