This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
So glad to see you well
Overcome and completely silent now
With heavens help you cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
To the dead
To the dead
Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn before us all
So glad to see you well
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
To the dead
To the dead
With your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping
Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down
(With your halo slipping down) but I'm more than just a little curious
(With your halo slipping down) how you're planning to go about making your
(With your halo slipping down) more than just a little curious
(With your halo slipping down) how you're planning to go about making your
(With your halo slipping down) more than just a little curious
Your halo slipping down
To choke you now
Overcome and completely silent now
With heavens help you cast your demons out
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you off your cloud
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
To the dead
To the dead
Recall the deeds as if they're all
Someone else's atrocious stories
Now you stand reborn before us all
So glad to see you well
And not to pull your halo down
Around your neck and tug you to the ground
But I'm more than just a little curious
How you're planning to go about making your amends
To the dead
To the dead
With your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping
Your halo slipping down
Your halo slipping down
(With your halo slipping down) but I'm more than just a little curious
(With your halo slipping down) how you're planning to go about making your
(With your halo slipping down) more than just a little curious
(With your halo slipping down) how you're planning to go about making your
(With your halo slipping down) more than just a little curious
Your halo slipping down
To choke you now
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Mountain Song
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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.
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I agree with the recovery meaning. I’m a recovering alcoholic/addict myself and unless there’s some hidden meaning, it’s pretty clear (to me anyway) it’s about a person who just "got sober". I’ve seen many people come out of treatment after getting off of heroin, etc ("casting their demons out") and want to immediately run around and tell everyone how they’re cured and everything’s great (“Now you stand reborn before us all, So glad to see you well”).
This person apparently did something to kill someone while using drugs or alcohol. Part of a 12 step program AA/NA is to make amends to those we have harmed through our drug use. It seems like Maynard is annoyed with this person because he’s running around telling everyone he’s well and cured, and Maynard is sarcastically saying he doesn’t want to pull him down off of his treatment high ("your cloud") and pull the halo off this now perfect new person, but that he better not be too proud of himself because he can’t make amends to the person/s he killed.
It also seems like Maynard is annoyed because it also sounds like the person hasn’t fully accepted the blame for what he’s done and is kind of going through the motions ("Recall the deeds as if they're all someone else's atrocious stories "). I’ve seen people tell their stories in AA and they tell it with absolutely no emotion or conscience which basically says they’re not sorry for what they’ve done yet, and haven’t accepted it. They use rehab and their addiction as an excuse for their previous behavior and don’t accept blame for it.
I also had a question about the lyrics typed up here. The second and third lines “Without himself , you cast your demons out “, I heard as “with Adam’s help, you cast your demons out”. My guess was that he’s referring to Adam Jones and that he helped whoever this person is get into rehab. I could be reaching here, but that was my guess. Anyone know if this is the case? Did Adam help Layne get into treatment at some point?
The recovering person meaning would also kind of go with other parts of the cd (Weak and Powerless, which sounds to me like its about heroin addiction) and the title “Thirteenth Step” which is a phrase used in AA/NA. There’s tons of other references scattered throughout the songs.
Anyway, thats my thoughts on it.