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."
The world today is such a wicked place
Fighting going on between the human race
People go to work just to earn their bread
While people just across the sea are counting their dead
A politician's job they say is very high
For he has to choose who's got to go and die
They can put a man on the moon quite easy
While people here on earth are dying of old diseases
A woman goes to work every day after day
She just goes to work just to earn her pay
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
He doesn't even know who is his father
Fighting going on between the human race
People go to work just to earn their bread
While people just across the sea are counting their dead
A politician's job they say is very high
For he has to choose who's got to go and die
They can put a man on the moon quite easy
While people here on earth are dying of old diseases
A woman goes to work every day after day
She just goes to work just to earn her pay
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder
He doesn't even know who is his father
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Another mother's breaking
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Money is spent on worthless things instead of going towards helping the human race. Greedy assholes don't give a fuck as long as they have money and power.
I've heard a few transcriptions of the 11th line:
Child sitting crying by a life that's harder Child sitting crying "My life is harder"* Child sitting by a body, life is harder
*I believe it's most likely this one.
it is definitely Child sitting crying by a life that's harder i know this as it is written in my album booklet, and i doubt they would get their own lyrics wrong. <3
This song was made in the 70s and yet it still applies today
I love the live version of this on "Live At Last". The guitar solo is cool.
Amazing work...........by the most legendary band ever
I thought it was "child sitting crying 'bout a life that's harder", but I guess that also makes sense.... Great song though.
this is one of those songs that's so straightforward and simple that it really doesn't need any interpretation. it just means what it says: life is hard, and people have problems.
some of sabbath's later work however, was so loaded with symbolism and abstraction that ozzy himself probably can't tell you what he meant at the time.
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