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."
I'm bleeding
bleeding inside
for love is no longer
a part of my life
I'm screaming
screaming for faith
my faith has flown out into
shining lights.
Chorus: Where am I now?
what have I gained?
trying to find
the wings of domain
Where is the love?
I'm dwelling in pain
hiding beneath
wings of domain!
Me alone
against the world
the void of emptiness
is piercing my soul
a virus
infects mankind
an infection incurable
Chorus: Where am I now?
what have I gained?
trying to find
the wings of domain
Where is the love?
I'm dwelling in pain
hiding beneath
wings of domain!
Where am I now?
what have I gained?
trying to find
the wings of domain
bleeding inside
for love is no longer
a part of my life
I'm screaming
screaming for faith
my faith has flown out into
shining lights.
Chorus: Where am I now?
what have I gained?
trying to find
the wings of domain
Where is the love?
I'm dwelling in pain
hiding beneath
wings of domain!
Me alone
against the world
the void of emptiness
is piercing my soul
a virus
infects mankind
an infection incurable
Chorus: Where am I now?
what have I gained?
trying to find
the wings of domain
Where is the love?
I'm dwelling in pain
hiding beneath
wings of domain!
Where am I now?
what have I gained?
trying to find
the wings of domain
Lyrics submitted by -L3tH4L-
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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,
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What the fuck is wrong with being emotional in lyrics?! Soilwork are about the pain, and anger of life. They sing about realistic things that people go through. If someone can try to insult them by saying that there going emo, they unfortunatly do not know soilwork very well at all. There lyrics all have emotion in them. However they have puzzles in every word, every word means a different thing and no matter how long you have you cannot really truely understand a song.
man.. this is my favorite soilwork song, i was hoping to get the meaning of this song
An example of Soilwork going emo. God damn pussies.
oh its seems we have a smart ass in the house.... how is soilwork "going" emo with this song, when this is a song off their FIRST album. also their next album afterwards is much heavier.....THE CHAINHEART MACHINE. and the lyrics are far from EMO there.
please if your going to diss soilwork....do it silently.
Soilwork going emo? ...wtf are you on man? In case you had not noticed, (I doubt you had.) this song comes from their DEBUT album. I dont see how they could be going emo if this was one of the first songs Soilwork made??? Do you think they are still emo? I would say FAR from it. They arent heartless, but they certainly arent emo. Their only emo song that actually went mainstream imo was EXILE from Sworn to a Great Divide... I liked that song at first, but now it just seems way to Poppy and aimed at 13 year old girls and boys wanting to be bad-ass by listening to metal.