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."
On a dark street
on a cold night
pizza's cooking
in a storefront oven
on the corner a boy is waiting
the moonlight feels cold and
desperate some hidden sadness has bound down
attention is all over town ready
to burst open into driving burning
exploding sound
If these walls could sing they would
sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk they would say
they would have seen it coming all along, all along
Tony's making slice pies for the lunch rush
stirring the sauce pounding out
the dough his brother left town with his
girl she aint his girl no more
And some days they never seem to end
So ????!!! in his home town ready to burst
open into driving burning exploding sound.
And If these walls could sing they would
sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk they would say
they would have seen it coming all along ,
all along, all along...
May all these walls be made in all our wasted years and days
not stand in our way that we may feel the window change
(change, turn it up [3x])
And If these walls could sing
they would sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk
they would say they would have seen it coming, coming, coming all along, all along
[x5]
on a cold night
pizza's cooking
in a storefront oven
on the corner a boy is waiting
the moonlight feels cold and
desperate some hidden sadness has bound down
attention is all over town ready
to burst open into driving burning
exploding sound
If these walls could sing they would
sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk they would say
they would have seen it coming all along, all along
Tony's making slice pies for the lunch rush
stirring the sauce pounding out
the dough his brother left town with his
girl she aint his girl no more
And some days they never seem to end
So ????!!! in his home town ready to burst
open into driving burning exploding sound.
And If these walls could sing they would
sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk they would say
they would have seen it coming all along ,
all along, all along...
May all these walls be made in all our wasted years and days
not stand in our way that we may feel the window change
(change, turn it up [3x])
And If these walls could sing
they would sing us a hundred songs
if these walls could talk
they would say they would have seen it coming, coming, coming all along, all along
[x5]
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damn I was hoping someone would have an answer for what the walls had seen coming all along
but i think the song is about getting wrapped up in a routine in life and never really getting out and doing what you want to.
"Tony's making slice pies for the lunch rush Stirring the sauce, pounding out the dough His brother left town with his girl She ain't his girl no more"
Tony's brother and girl left because they wanted to get away and he was left behind because he was too afraid to break out and go somewhere, that's how I interpret it anyways.
So yeah I think it's about that and maybe looking back and seeing how the years have passed you by. So maybe what the walls saw coming is that you would realize that you made the mistake of never getting out and doing what you wanted with your life. And they saw it coming because they've seen it happen to many people who worked in the store before.
Anyways such a beautiful song, when I first saw the title I thought it was gonna be a fun song about pizza and then I listened to it and I was like woah, this is deep.