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."
As I walk behind her, her scent trails me
What is it that draws me nearer, what could it be?
Once I was normal among the sheep
Now I'm immoral, in the night I creep
Searching for the one, 21, she will run from the gleam of my blade, she has strayed
She will pay with the only life that she knows
Captured by the gender she loathes
Now she is tied, terrified, set aside
As I prepare, she stares, as
I tear at the garment she hides behind
Her young flesh is so divine
One final deed, she will plead, I proceed
Satisfying my urge, I will scourge, as I surge
through her hallowed feminine domain
From her young body, I can't abstain
Lifeless she now lies, now untied, I defile
Carefully scoring her skin, I begin from within
Removing her organs inspected
Still nothing detected
One way to achieve
The info I need
Continuing to cleave
Gradually consumed
She was foredoomed
Body one big wound
Now I am through, as I chew on the few pieces that remain
of the brain, nothing gained, I continue my
searching in the night for the one who fulfills my plight
Searching for the one, 21, she will run from the gleam of my blade, she will pay
Nothing left to mutilate
Nothing left to mutilate
What is it that draws me nearer, what could it be?
Once I was normal among the sheep
Now I'm immoral, in the night I creep
Searching for the one, 21, she will run from the gleam of my blade, she has strayed
She will pay with the only life that she knows
Captured by the gender she loathes
Now she is tied, terrified, set aside
As I prepare, she stares, as
I tear at the garment she hides behind
Her young flesh is so divine
One final deed, she will plead, I proceed
Satisfying my urge, I will scourge, as I surge
through her hallowed feminine domain
From her young body, I can't abstain
Lifeless she now lies, now untied, I defile
Carefully scoring her skin, I begin from within
Removing her organs inspected
Still nothing detected
One way to achieve
The info I need
Continuing to cleave
Gradually consumed
She was foredoomed
Body one big wound
Now I am through, as I chew on the few pieces that remain
of the brain, nothing gained, I continue my
searching in the night for the one who fulfills my plight
Searching for the one, 21, she will run from the gleam of my blade, she will pay
Nothing left to mutilate
Nothing left to mutilate
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Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
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 Can't Go To Sleep
Wu-Tang Clan
Wu-Tang Clan
This song is written as the perspective of the boys in the street, as a whole, and what path they are going to choose as they get older and grow into men. (This is why the music video takes place in an orphanage.) The seen, and unseen collective suffering is imbedded in the boys’ mind, consciously or subconsciously, and is haunting them. Which path will the boys choose? Issac Hayes is the voice of reason, maybe God, the angel on his shoulder, or the voice of his forefathers from beyond the grave who can see the big picture and are pleading with the boys not to continue the violence and pattern of killing their brothers, but to rise above. The most beautiful song and has so many levels. Racism towards African Americans in America would not exist if everyone sat down and listened to this song and understood the history behind the words. The power, fear, pleading in RZA and Ghostface voices are genuine and powerful. Issac Hayes’ strong voice makes the perfect strong father figure, who is possibly from beyond the grave.
No Surprises
Radiohead
Radiohead
Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
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I really like this song, I think it's some of George Fisher's more musically patterned vocals in this one.
mudvaynefan66 you ate shit yesterday right?, because you are talking like and ass, look bitch, if this song bother your pussy mind, then dont hear it, form me it is art, and is about been so aroused by the women that he kill her and look for something that make him so crazy, and he still... so fuck you bitching emo, pussy, faggot, britney spears fan, lol
Mudvayne get your scrawny pale bitch ass out of a cannibal corpse lyric page. No one cares how many men you fuck. And how much mudvayne is a mainstream group of nutsuckers. Fuck you dude. Rock on CC
Mudvayne. First you like Mudvayne and they suck and cannibal corpse is one of the best bands ever you faggot.
MudvayneFan66 fuck you. No wait, first torture then kill and then fuck... you'll be so fucking rotting you christin whore. I'll destroy all of your bones and eat your skin.
I bet you that if this fucking song was done as one of the shitty pop songs on the radio... same lyrics and such, but singing instead of the growls and such, it would be more fucking accepted.
And Mudvayne, shut the fuck up. These guys aren't being serious. This is the style of music they write. If you can't hack these lyrics (or any other CC lyrics for that matter), that's fine... but I think that the name CANNIBAL CORPSE itself should fucking suggest something!!
its about a guy kidnapping a girl to explore her pheromones.
opps wrote wrong, i mean, the pheromones from the girl is what turns him on and makes him follow her, it's not expalined why he kills her, possibly to explore her insides haha, good old CC.
Basically, this time the sick fucks are talking about killing a 21 year old women and then eating her. They are the sickest mother fucking necropheliac raping murdering bastards. They should just go back to their little abandoned crack house and have their sick fantasies where they won't bother us.