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."
(Put the little kids in the corner with their face and their eyes in the corner)
My favorite band is a witch
Find themselves in poet corners, and they still like to dick
It's of course, they're afraid, it's a fine, complicate
You can find, demonstrate, slip along, demon ways
My favorite band, is a witch
Find themselves with perfect mornings, and they still try to live
The menstruation, pull it surprised a masturbation, a little morning cries
I wish on thievery of corners
Admit the cries, I know he's saying, I know he's saying so tired
They'll have to put the little kids in the corner with there eyes and face on the floor
You're so fucked up now, you're fucked up now
Put the little kids in the corner with their eyes and face on the floor
Put the little kids in the corner with their eyes and face on the floor
I know you want me to keep on going
You want me to keep on going
And you know wherever I am
My favorite band is a witch
Find themselves in poet corners, and they still like to dick
It's of course, they're afraid, it's a fine, complicate
You can find, demonstrate, slip along, demon ways
My favorite band, is a witch
Find themselves with perfect mornings, and they still try to live
The menstruation, pull it surprised a masturbation, a little morning cries
I wish on thievery of corners
Admit the cries, I know he's saying, I know he's saying so tired
They'll have to put the little kids in the corner with there eyes and face on the floor
You're so fucked up now, you're fucked up now
Put the little kids in the corner with their eyes and face on the floor
Put the little kids in the corner with their eyes and face on the floor
I know you want me to keep on going
You want me to keep on going
And you know wherever I am
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this song makes me feel a little afraid. i think this sounds so different when compared to other broken social scene songs. this song's aura just reeks of destruction or negativity [to me], and i havent ever felt that before with any of BSS's stuff. i really like it though!
DON'T BE SCARED
this song is amazing i listened to this song stoned and i got the most amazing high i have ever had in my entire life this is my 2nd most favorite song in the world his voice is amazing the vocals in the background the rythm JUST WOW
where are the 40+ comments for this song.
i'll add.
a completely amazing song. very accomplished. i love it. i really can't comprehend a definite meaning, and i think that's why i really like it.
cool.
I like how it kind of unravels at the end with all the studio chatter (?). It makes the final lyrics, "And you know wherever I am..", so cool.
I think I'm going to have to take the fellows advice above and get stoned and give this song a listen. Although listening to it with nothing in my system is pretty amazing also.
my favorite band is a witch (you can lick the corner sides) find themselves in poet corners and they still like to ditch (you can lick the cortisone) yes of course, their afraid, it's a find, complicate, and you can fuck, demonstrate, sleep alone......... demon wait. waiting for joeys kind my favorite band is a witch (you can lick the corner sides) find themselves with perfect mourners and they still try to live ( you can lick the cortisone) the administration, the pull it surprise, the masturbation, the little morning cries.......i wait on fear in a ray of corners, and mental crimes, i know your singing, sing it self war time, war time they like to put the little kids in the corner with their eyes and face on the floor... i'm waiting for joeys kind i'm waitng for joeys kind your in a fucked up band your in a fucked up band ( sections of the solar panel lies ) your in a fucked up band ( all the life) your in a fucked up band they like to put the little kids in the corner with their face on the floor put the little kids in the corner with their face and their eyes on the floor.. on the floor.......... you want me to keep on going, i know you want you want to keep on going..... and you know where ever i am.......
here are the lyrics according to the official site..
I know this sounds crazy but i think the song is based on, or at least deals with some issues of the movie and legend of "the blair witch project".. the line "they like to put the little kids in the corner with there face and eys on the floor" is a reference to how a legendary serial killer named rustin parr tortured and killed his victims: one child would wait in the corner facing the floor as another was slowly killed. when arrested rustin parr claimed that he was "possesed" by the blair witch or some demon from the forest.. or maybe the song is just a metaphor for how people can blame their actions on being possessed by things like drugs or "demons"
They played this last night. It was thoroughly haunting, but fucking fantastic.
Oh God, I love this song.
I think this song is about bands in general, being asses and turning their lives into complete shit. But thats just a theory.