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."
Loud talk
Dumb love
Lacerator
Come and touch
Bleed to feel, feel to fuck
Keep you coming, coming back for more
Alcohol, it's a lie, stimulate a needle in your eye
Let it bleed, blow your mind
Touched myself, nearly went blind
Couldn't find a way to live though the pain
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't get out of bed
Ten ton bricks laying on my head
Persecute the crucified
Kill a man for losing his mind
Couldn't find a way to live though the shame
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Couldn't find a way to live though the pain
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Dumb love
Lacerator
Come and touch
Bleed to feel, feel to fuck
Keep you coming, coming back for more
Alcohol, it's a lie, stimulate a needle in your eye
Let it bleed, blow your mind
Touched myself, nearly went blind
Couldn't find a way to live though the pain
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't get out of bed
Ten ton bricks laying on my head
Persecute the crucified
Kill a man for losing his mind
Couldn't find a way to live though the shame
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Couldn't find a way to live though the pain
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Couldn't find another way to win the race
Couldn't find a way
Dumb love
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
Come on out, you're coming home
Deceive yourself, you're all alone
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Dumb Love Lyrics as written by Robert Emile Deleo Dean Deleo
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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.
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Everyone in the comments are god damn "drugs" experts huh, jesus fucking christ... go to hell
Wieland not Stapp
unacceptable man =/
I'm pretty sure this is about his drug addiction. That would be his true "Dumb Love" in life and the media hell he had to go through because of it. "Persecute the crucified" means the media is persecuting a guy who already killed himself i.e. Scott. Plus, the specific mentions of alcohol and needles and such give it away.
A great song. When I fist heard it I thought it was about masterbation. "Touched myself and nearly went blind" referring to preppy parents who tell their kids if they masterbate they will go blind.
Seems to be about drugs. "Couldn't find a way to live through the pain/shame..." Maybe the dumb love means he has an affection for drugs and the feeling he gets via use but he knows in the end it is a dumb decision and its killing him.
I think most of the songs of this album talk about his adiction!
thats true... and its crazy because if someone who didnt know anything about stp heard shangri la dee da they would probaly think all the songs are just about breakups and feeling sad hahah
I think this song is about things like drugs and masturbation and how meaningless they are... As in "dumb love", they don't really love you, they're just tools to make you feel better.
"Keep you coming back for more", as in addiction.
"Alcohol, it's a lie", meaning that alcohol won't really make you feel better, it'll just get you drunk but then you'll feel worse afterwards.
"Stimulate the needle in your eye"--the needle, or the heroin, is blinding him from what truly matters.
"Touched myself, nearly went blind"--you know what they say about touching yourself...
"Couldn't find a way to live through the pain"...so he did drugs and drank too much to make all the pain go away.
"Couldn't get out of bed, ten ton bricks lying on my head"--maybe a reference to a hangover and how the things he "loved" only made his life worse.
"Persecute the crucified, kill a man for losing his mind"--because he kept getting in trouble with the law for an addiction that he couldn't get rid of.
Brilliant, I completely agree.
def about heroin
i think scotts talking about addiction and how its a "dumb love" to be addicted .. lyrically it makes sense to think that
'stimulate a needle in your eye' - wonder if scotts ever tried that.....