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."
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Your blood
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Your blood
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Straight for the jugular, raw dog suckular, blood killer
I'm the creep in the hearst with a thirst for the worst
Type of shit you ain't heard
Psychopathic, anarchistic
Masochistic, fuck religion
A vampire settin' churches on fire
Bringin' down the evil muthafuckin' empire (Yes!)
Cut a throat to the bone, to the beat of my song
Cut yourself medically pulsate
My heartbeat bumping like a 808
A shadow caster, fantasma
And I wanna take a drink of your plasma
I'm hanging upside down in an all black room
Stickin' myself, drinkin' the blood from the wound
Gotta consume enough blood to keep me alive
Cause if I don't I'm gonna wither and die, bye bye
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Now blood might drip, blood might clot
Blood might flow, but fuck all that
Sit down and listen close to your uncle Shaggs
I'll take blood in any form, even scabs
Tainted needles filled with junky blood
Just let me find this vein
I hang at the emergency ward and lick wounds
Gimme that blood for the ritual of the loons
I need blood like a mosquito
I'll suck the blood out of a heroin needle
I don't care how I get it just come with it
I'll lick the blood off your lip if you bit it
I'll slit my wrist and neck and do the windmill
And be a blood fountain for real
I'll swim underwater sniffin' for blood like a shark
But I ain't a shark I'm a blood suckin' retard, retard uhh
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
I've been known for blood sippin'
Pull the trigger everybody trippin'
All on the carpet, splattered on the wall
Shotgun blast, couple people fall
I even took a slug, I'm already dead
Cocked the gauge and made a river of his forehead
Wiped his blood on the front of my shirt
Would you die for the Lotus? I came from the dirt
Blood, the sight of it excites me
I'm such a mess, slippery excuse me
I spent all day writing die on the wall
And my hands are all bloody, and my fingertips raw to the bone
Now I'm all alone, and Malaki speakin'
Hear me talkin' on the crow
Mix with the blood on the third night
Will allow the dead to walk again in the sunlight
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Gimme that
Gimme that blood, gimme that blood
Gimme that blood, gimme that blood
Your blood
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Your blood
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Straight for the jugular, raw dog suckular, blood killer
I'm the creep in the hearst with a thirst for the worst
Type of shit you ain't heard
Psychopathic, anarchistic
Masochistic, fuck religion
A vampire settin' churches on fire
Bringin' down the evil muthafuckin' empire (Yes!)
Cut a throat to the bone, to the beat of my song
Cut yourself medically pulsate
My heartbeat bumping like a 808
A shadow caster, fantasma
And I wanna take a drink of your plasma
I'm hanging upside down in an all black room
Stickin' myself, drinkin' the blood from the wound
Gotta consume enough blood to keep me alive
Cause if I don't I'm gonna wither and die, bye bye
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Now blood might drip, blood might clot
Blood might flow, but fuck all that
Sit down and listen close to your uncle Shaggs
I'll take blood in any form, even scabs
Tainted needles filled with junky blood
Just let me find this vein
I hang at the emergency ward and lick wounds
Gimme that blood for the ritual of the loons
I need blood like a mosquito
I'll suck the blood out of a heroin needle
I don't care how I get it just come with it
I'll lick the blood off your lip if you bit it
I'll slit my wrist and neck and do the windmill
And be a blood fountain for real
I'll swim underwater sniffin' for blood like a shark
But I ain't a shark I'm a blood suckin' retard, retard uhh
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
I've been known for blood sippin'
Pull the trigger everybody trippin'
All on the carpet, splattered on the wall
Shotgun blast, couple people fall
I even took a slug, I'm already dead
Cocked the gauge and made a river of his forehead
Wiped his blood on the front of my shirt
Would you die for the Lotus? I came from the dirt
Blood, the sight of it excites me
I'm such a mess, slippery excuse me
I spent all day writing die on the wall
And my hands are all bloody, and my fingertips raw to the bone
Now I'm all alone, and Malaki speakin'
Hear me talkin' on the crow
Mix with the blood on the third night
Will allow the dead to walk again in the sunlight
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Oooh what I wouldn't do to taste your blood
Gimme that blood! Gimme that blood!
Gimme that
Gimme that blood, gimme that blood
Gimme that blood, gimme that blood
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Just listening for the 784,654th time....and it's just perfect in every way. Just incredible. The only reason it was remade was to scoop up a boatload of money from a more modern and accepting audience. But it is a completely different song than the other one that sounds slapped together in a few takes without a thought for the meaning.
This song captivates me still, after 50+ years. Takes me to the deep South and the poverty of some who lived thru truly hard times. And the powerful spirit of a poor young girl being abandoned to her future with only a red dress and her wits to keep her alive.
She not only stayed alive, she turned her hard beginnings around, became self sufficient, successful and someone with respect for herself. She didn't let the naysayers and judgers stop her. She's the one sitting in the drivers seat at the end.
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Ok, this song is completely MAKING FUN of those fans who go around acting like vampires. I know someone like this and I love that I can play this song to him to show him how ridiculous he is, but he thinks that they are serious and refuses to see that they're mocking him! "I'll swim underwater sniffin' for blood like a shark But I ain't a shark I'm a blood suckin' retard, retard!"
this song is the shit o and its not mocking vamps, j is mocking himself he dos that a lot
go ask aliceeee when your 10 ft tallll. this song is so funny.