He reuses the verse melody from the previous album's "Dirty Little Religion", the topics of the verses are all over the place, and he packs too many words into one line (goes to show...) and too few in another (it's pretty hard to find), and rhymes "Henley Regatta" with "Persona non grata", but gets away with it all as only he could.
I climb the walls of my mind just like I'm climbing on a jungle gym
I am more than content with the state of mind I am in
'Cause I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I don't think I need a rubber room, but that might be nice
I'm not a manic depressive, paranoid or schizophrenic, so I don't need your advice
'Cause I'm just crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
The lights are on but nobody's home
My elevator doesn't go to the top
I'm not playing with a full deck
I've lost my marbles
The lights are on but nobody's home
My elevator doesn't go to the top
I'm not playing with a full deck
I've lost my marbles (oh, oh oh)
I'm a few bricks short of a load, but a full load always hurt my back
I flew over the cuckoo's nest and I'm never ever coming back
'Cause I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy)
You wanna get out of here, don't you?
You wanna get out? Then run, then run, then run
Don't answer that, bring that helicopter back down will ya?
Was proud of his new harmonica, he decided to become an expert
Crazy
He was a quiet long-legged skinny man with a dignified beard and mustache
Tell me this, Eddie, I've got to know, isn't there a house for me?
You wanna get out of here don't you?
Don't answer that, bring that helicopter back down will ya?
We're rollin' man!
Found my locker
That is the take
As I prepare a suit that's made from monkey
Bad (just cheese you know)
Ah
Goes to the theatre 'cause he watches everybody else
But no one watches him, everybody knows
And if I phoned my friends in Ireland
I'd have my own radio talk show and I'd talk to myself
And if I filmed my sister walking
I'd yell stuff like, "hey, get off the phone"
Gordon? Yeah, Gordon, King Gordon
I am more than content with the state of mind I am in
'Cause I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I don't think I need a rubber room, but that might be nice
I'm not a manic depressive, paranoid or schizophrenic, so I don't need your advice
'Cause I'm just crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
The lights are on but nobody's home
My elevator doesn't go to the top
I'm not playing with a full deck
I've lost my marbles
The lights are on but nobody's home
My elevator doesn't go to the top
I'm not playing with a full deck
I've lost my marbles (oh, oh oh)
I'm a few bricks short of a load, but a full load always hurt my back
I flew over the cuckoo's nest and I'm never ever coming back
'Cause I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy, crazy) just like you
I am crazy (crazy)
You wanna get out of here, don't you?
You wanna get out? Then run, then run, then run
Don't answer that, bring that helicopter back down will ya?
Was proud of his new harmonica, he decided to become an expert
Crazy
He was a quiet long-legged skinny man with a dignified beard and mustache
Tell me this, Eddie, I've got to know, isn't there a house for me?
You wanna get out of here don't you?
Don't answer that, bring that helicopter back down will ya?
We're rollin' man!
Found my locker
That is the take
As I prepare a suit that's made from monkey
Bad (just cheese you know)
Ah
Goes to the theatre 'cause he watches everybody else
But no one watches him, everybody knows
And if I phoned my friends in Ireland
I'd have my own radio talk show and I'd talk to myself
And if I filmed my sister walking
I'd yell stuff like, "hey, get off the phone"
Gordon? Yeah, Gordon, King Gordon
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This song is def a twin to "Unfair" (a song she has been quoted as saying is about falling in love with someone who is already in a relationship) so it is presumably about the same person. Given the references to buying an apartment and not being able to see her love interest "after tonight," it's most likely that she's moving away and she'll "wait a day to break the bad news" (i.e. notifying him that she's leaving once she's already gone).
And, of course, the fact that she sees in him a fellow "idealist" and "dreamer" (terms commonly given to people with the INFP personality on the Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)) portends that she'll always be left wondering if they would've been perfect together.
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This is one of my favorite songs. https://fnfgo.io
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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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."
How about it's about one band member knowing another band member struggles with depression, aka is described as "Crazy" and he uses all the stereotypes, all the stigma-inducing-crazymaking phrases that are out there to say, Hey - it's OK, cuz I'm crazy just like you.
Steven Page has been open about his experiences with depression. I don't know if other band members have been - but combined with alot of the other lyrics (as obvious as Brian Wilson that describes depression and bipolar disorder), it almost feels like an 'I'm ok, you're ok' from one band mate who might not have the degree of difficulty of another but nevertheless can empathize in a big way.
All those secret lyrics and gibberish? The illusion of mental illness, the inate wackiness and everyday-kinda of guys of the BNL. One guy has the language .... i.e. who use manic depressive anymore? Only those who don't know or ... (machiavellian chuckle ...) those whe try to rhyme!
Did I just make you say 'Underwear?" (Don't worry, it's a lyric from them ... I'm not quite that wacky. Yet.)
Oh man, they are BLAM.