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."
Heretic laughters in distorted senses shred the world in thunderous sounds
Enslaved to the religious bitch from inside cursing all with equal hate
The Devil's kiss before I die to the great sacrament of the Grand Teneh
Rising from the deathlike slumber with pain amid the voices that mean nothing
But reversed words from the womb engraved reeking putrid semen elevation toward the light
The limpid blood of the surrounding stream frees the lumbs enforced with filth
Faeces open deformed visions of reality forever dwelling before morality
Desecrated lineage of vision, penance through senses
The rape that no one fears wastes the essence of sin
The veil of the widow is a cum sudarium
Desecrated lineage of vision, penance through senses
Prophets of vain sights gave relies to all the cross shaded birth of the replica
Holy of holies, rising of kings, greedy of sins, killing and raping
Sado-repentance of the ghastly bitch, and there I stand relieved from purgatory
The brimstone smell fills my lung and the sea gave up the dead
The mocking wrath of the prophets vomiting steel to crush nations
Laseive angels covering the walls, I am the flesh, I am the church of Hell
Apostles mystifying verses load cum into baptismal waters carried by addicted angels
To an heroin cult of relics and idols, symbols to themselves of Baphomet
And I am legion, taking the throne usurped by lethargy divine
Gehenna stands and all will follow to the everlasting laws of the whore womb
From the blood of Ahaziah we mock the Lord that once was
Hosanna Sathanas, I bring the humiliation of Christ
Sheol blessed forehead, I am the abomination of God
The infection iniquity of the ten have raised me from ghost to God
Enslaved to the religious bitch from inside cursing all with equal hate
The Devil's kiss before I die to the great sacrament of the Grand Teneh
Rising from the deathlike slumber with pain amid the voices that mean nothing
But reversed words from the womb engraved reeking putrid semen elevation toward the light
The limpid blood of the surrounding stream frees the lumbs enforced with filth
Faeces open deformed visions of reality forever dwelling before morality
Desecrated lineage of vision, penance through senses
The rape that no one fears wastes the essence of sin
The veil of the widow is a cum sudarium
Desecrated lineage of vision, penance through senses
Prophets of vain sights gave relies to all the cross shaded birth of the replica
Holy of holies, rising of kings, greedy of sins, killing and raping
Sado-repentance of the ghastly bitch, and there I stand relieved from purgatory
The brimstone smell fills my lung and the sea gave up the dead
The mocking wrath of the prophets vomiting steel to crush nations
Laseive angels covering the walls, I am the flesh, I am the church of Hell
Apostles mystifying verses load cum into baptismal waters carried by addicted angels
To an heroin cult of relics and idols, symbols to themselves of Baphomet
And I am legion, taking the throne usurped by lethargy divine
Gehenna stands and all will follow to the everlasting laws of the whore womb
From the blood of Ahaziah we mock the Lord that once was
Hosanna Sathanas, I bring the humiliation of Christ
Sheol blessed forehead, I am the abomination of God
The infection iniquity of the ten have raised me from ghost to God
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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