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."
(what do your nipples look like)
wherever i go
i take a little piece of you
i collect
i reject
photographs i took of you
well times i passed through
so many faces
so many places
i have got to have a memory
i have never been there
i have never had you
i can't remember
give me your reminder
i collect
i reject
memorabilia
(now girl..only it's flavor..bow down here)
keychains and snowstorms
the taste of your sweat
the look in your eye
i have been inside you
i know what it feels like
(wet as it is..the whiter the honey)
i collect
i reject
memorabilia
(goodies come in here all day)
give me your reminder
i can't remember
i collect
i reject
memorabilia
wherever i go
i take a little piece of you
i collect
i reject
photographs i took of you
well times i passed through
so many faces
so many places
i have got to have a memory
i have never been there
i have never had you
i can't remember
give me your reminder
i collect
i reject
memorabilia
(now girl..only it's flavor..bow down here)
keychains and snowstorms
the taste of your sweat
the look in your eye
i have been inside you
i know what it feels like
(wet as it is..the whiter the honey)
i collect
i reject
memorabilia
(goodies come in here all day)
give me your reminder
i can't remember
i collect
i reject
memorabilia
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sweetnspicy656, your a moron. The lyrics posted here are wrong. This song is like - about him being with a woman, having relations with her, but then moving on to someone else. As if he goes around to all these places and hooks up with women. But that's only on the outside of this song. The lyrics might mean something more, but I don't know.
This song is a cover of the Soft Cell song, fyi.
Wow, what a crazy, long assed song. Great nevertheless. Song is self-explanitory. A Downward Spiral B-side. I wonder where this song would have fit...
Wow, what a crazy, long assed song. Great nevertheless. Song is self-explanitory. A Downward Spiral B-side. I wonder where this song would have fit...
kind of a psycho feeling leaves this one...
felt so personal once...
isn't there stuff going on in the backround too. Like people talking and shit? Cool song.
the part that really gets me: "keychains and snowstorms the taste of your sweat the look in your eye i have been inside you i know what it feels like" i love it, and how he keeps repeating "i have been inside you" this song is awesome..
Read the lyrics Trent has an STD
I think this song is about a relationship he had with a woman, that ended, and he's trying to remember it. Maybe drugs or addiction had a lot to do with him not remembering their relationship, so all he has to remind himself of her are the photographs he took.
'well times i passed through so many faces so many places i have got to have a memory i have never been there i have never had you'
'keychains and snowstorms the taste of your sweat the look in your eye i have been inside you i know what it feels like i collect i reject'
At this point he is provided with memorabilia that reminds him of how it felt. Maybe he's meeting the woman that he was once with for the first time since then and her look, the taste of her sweat, they bring back those feelings again. He rejects them so that he won't go back to that point, but he can't let them go.
hahaha. he is.
This is like one of the only NIN songs i have never heard before... but it seems that I would like it.