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."
this scalpel makes a map across my back. carve a short cut to your suitcase lips. there's no saving us tonight. our pulse will flutter like a dial tone. as you touch my hand for one last time, the car engine hums us to sleep. the lies. your subtle teeth. tonight is the rest of our lives. a carbon monoxide lullaby. evacuate. abandon this breath. pull myself apart. just to feel something real. i close my eyes i turn my back for one last time. i hold my breath i fall alseep inside your arms. your eyes reflect my regrets. all the feelings you cant afford and the ones i cant control have collided. now i'm a mess. i've tried my best to hide it. now it's obvious. i wear it in these wounds that never heal. there's no saving us tonight.
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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,
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Head > Heels
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Head > Heels” is a track that aims to capture what it feels like to experience romance that exceeds expectations. Ed Sheeran dedicates his album outro to a lover who has blessed him with a unique experience that he seeks to describe through the song’s nuanced lyrics.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
its kinda unbelievable that no one has commented on this song, its so beautiful, but keeps its hard edge. love it.
do you know if the bled is at all affiliated with hopesfall?
one interpretation i got from this song is that his lover died in her sleep and he doenst know how to deal with it well.
another is that two people are commiting suicide in a car by carbon monoxide poisoning becuase life is too hard
sorry um for that shit meaning i came up wiht. i screwed it up and didnt htink about it for long enough..so here you all:
catharsis-A technique used to relieve tension and anxiety by bringing repressed feelings and fears to consciousness
cyanide-Any of various salts or esters of hydrogen cyanide containing a CN group, especially the extremely poisonous compounds potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide.(found in rat poison)
Well since the title is "my cyanide catharsis", and given the definitions above and the lyrics, i have to say that it is about the fact that he is in pain, and it is extremely painful for him to realize what has happened. he is really depressed and feels he will never get out. for awhile he could hide it, but now everyone knows. his ex is the source of his pain, and when he looks into her pictures, he realizes that he never should have entered this relationship as said in, " your eyes, reflect my regrets".
It seems to me that he hurts himself physically to feel "something real".
"I turn my back for one last time" shows that he is killing himself and when 'i fall asleep inside your arms' is when he sees that she has takn him over
then again, i could be totally wrong.
more people need to comment on ths stuff
i agree now that i think of it... before i thought i knew, but this makes more sence! but i'll tell you what i thought before. i thought that it was about a guy and girl in love right, but their love was forbidden. and so they wanted to die by putting them selves to sleep with the poisonous gas. he looked into her eyes and they reflected his regrets because he thought "if only i never met you, if i never had fallen in love, my life wouldnt be ending" but thats what i thought because i was going though so it kinda manipulated my opinion.
I've been looking for this song for ages! I've had it on a mixed CD of stuff I'd downloaded and because I forgot to write what was on it i didn't know but I just listen over and over and yay it's the bled. ^_^
To me this song is about figureing out repressed emotions or memories and getting past them.
"I close my eyes I turn my back for one last time"
He may be talking about something traumatic that has happend in the past.
"All the feelings you cant afford and the ones I cant control have collided. Now i'm a mess. I've tried my best to hide it."
The surfacing of emotions/memories you couldnt deal with. You can try to pretend like nothing is wrong but one day it will get to you.
I agree with "cearamm" somewhat on his interpertation of this song. I can see how this could apply to a old girlfriend "your eyes reflect my regrets..." regrets of what he could have done better maybe.
I dont know, this is just how the song applys to me. I think the song is open to interpretation, Post Yours.
100% with cearamm
What can i say, it's my favorite song, after listening to it 100's of times, i have taken not much notice to what the lyrics mean. Now looking at them, it seems like parts from the song suggests they are taking off somewhere together. Poisonous compounds obviosuly stop them from doing so or reaching their destination together.
I think im pretty close with that statement. either way, this song will always be a favorite of mine, i aslo think it would be great if they did a remake of this song, but acoustic.
This song is so amazing... one of my favouritesss.