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."
Lyrics:
(Feat. E-40)
Hook:
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
So i can So i can Coom (which means to orgasm)
Scraper Whip Them Whips near by
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
so i can SO I CAN Go
open all doors at the stop light
(Put your stunna shades) (Put Your Stunna Shades On)
Verse1:
Christian Dior frame got the lences out
bend in scraper spin it outt
got clown sum like a booss do
lookin like coo mo deep cuzin i coon (I coon)
Dark 30 Gold on premoo
off to the treman house gotta reload
my relies really cant trust uss
Big *** sunglass got it from bayview bustas
lookin like a bug thizlummug
lookin like im from crest woaa
fresh no mildoe tone low wit it
suction pipe on the back cause smoke wit it
my white t only wear it one time
northern cali fall with the sunshine
ya mean sum called the yahahamean
dumb hyphy jumpin full circle
Hook
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
So i can So i can Coom
Scraper Whip Them Whips near by
(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
so i can SO I CAN Go
open all doors at the stop light
(Put your stunna shades) (Put Your Stunna Shades On)
Verse2:
Gotta pair and it look like spiderman
same color of the pimpin called cayan
at night no sun no need a tann
old school like a string on a tin can
gotta pair liek chp huh?
thats why they vote for me huh?
thats why they hate on me huh?
video tape sirvalence me huh?
say stunnas i say coonnas
half naked in my shades in my blueones
gotta pair with the studs like donna's
light green lookin just like niners
sum say das my house like rond rall
doors open on the hood of the box yeaa
doing coon alabam to the bay mayne
born in the city where the river flow much can-coon
Hook
I wear my stunna Glasses at nite
So i can So i can Coom
Scraper Whip Them Whips near by
(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)
Verse3
me and the trumplus in the luck
im so flatland like table park
stunna shades on and my wrist look heavy
i wear em in the dark like bad by freddy
mettic mettic never have a job again
look so coon young ray robinson
burned on scrape dooks off hazzard
my homies look shady like marshall mathers
we smashin the car like a rock guitar
mill tj so popular
im ridin joe on the way to the club
big stunna shades with the diamond studs
bay boy they boy bringin and dancin
all out the window going dummy u bastards
dudes swing dread locks with da head
u aint got no stunna shades u should get u a pair yeaa
E40:
i got my rhine stone stunna shade glasses on
they takin picture with me with they lil camera fone
headed to the bar and they playin my songg
wishoe hennesy with don perion
the broads is choosin the fightin is shootin
like 40 water say pimpin we tycoonin
we sum tymers we on sum real time bra bra
toon u up if u get out of line bra bra
northern cali i named it the yay
the first rapper i seen with stunnas shades was mac dre
trans settas hyphy started in the o
the hole bay go stupid im from the vallejo
and u could put this in the hiphop bible
keep this sneaks hyphy
verse on this album is sneakersidle
nope its not my invention
but im responsible for the bay game
and all its attention OUh
Hook
I wear my stunna Glasses at nite
So i can So i can Coom
Scraper Whip Them Whips near by
(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
so i can SO I CAN Go open all doors
at the stop light
(Put your stunna shades) (Put Your Stunna Shades On)
(Feat. E-40)
Hook:
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
So i can So i can Coom (which means to orgasm)
Scraper Whip Them Whips near by
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
so i can SO I CAN Go
open all doors at the stop light
(Put your stunna shades) (Put Your Stunna Shades On)
Verse1:
Christian Dior frame got the lences out
bend in scraper spin it outt
got clown sum like a booss do
lookin like coo mo deep cuzin i coon (I coon)
Dark 30 Gold on premoo
off to the treman house gotta reload
my relies really cant trust uss
Big *** sunglass got it from bayview bustas
lookin like a bug thizlummug
lookin like im from crest woaa
fresh no mildoe tone low wit it
suction pipe on the back cause smoke wit it
my white t only wear it one time
northern cali fall with the sunshine
ya mean sum called the yahahamean
dumb hyphy jumpin full circle
Hook
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
So i can So i can Coom
Scraper Whip Them Whips near by
(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
so i can SO I CAN Go
open all doors at the stop light
(Put your stunna shades) (Put Your Stunna Shades On)
Verse2:
Gotta pair and it look like spiderman
same color of the pimpin called cayan
at night no sun no need a tann
old school like a string on a tin can
gotta pair liek chp huh?
thats why they vote for me huh?
thats why they hate on me huh?
video tape sirvalence me huh?
say stunnas i say coonnas
half naked in my shades in my blueones
gotta pair with the studs like donna's
light green lookin just like niners
sum say das my house like rond rall
doors open on the hood of the box yeaa
doing coon alabam to the bay mayne
born in the city where the river flow much can-coon
Hook
I wear my stunna Glasses at nite
So i can So i can Coom
Scraper Whip Them Whips near by
(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)
Verse3
me and the trumplus in the luck
im so flatland like table park
stunna shades on and my wrist look heavy
i wear em in the dark like bad by freddy
mettic mettic never have a job again
look so coon young ray robinson
burned on scrape dooks off hazzard
my homies look shady like marshall mathers
we smashin the car like a rock guitar
mill tj so popular
im ridin joe on the way to the club
big stunna shades with the diamond studs
bay boy they boy bringin and dancin
all out the window going dummy u bastards
dudes swing dread locks with da head
u aint got no stunna shades u should get u a pair yeaa
E40:
i got my rhine stone stunna shade glasses on
they takin picture with me with they lil camera fone
headed to the bar and they playin my songg
wishoe hennesy with don perion
the broads is choosin the fightin is shootin
like 40 water say pimpin we tycoonin
we sum tymers we on sum real time bra bra
toon u up if u get out of line bra bra
northern cali i named it the yay
the first rapper i seen with stunnas shades was mac dre
trans settas hyphy started in the o
the hole bay go stupid im from the vallejo
and u could put this in the hiphop bible
keep this sneaks hyphy
verse on this album is sneakersidle
nope its not my invention
but im responsible for the bay game
and all its attention OUh
Hook
I wear my stunna Glasses at nite
So i can So i can Coom
Scraper Whip Them Whips near by
(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)(Coom)
I wear my stunna Glasses at night
so i can SO I CAN Go open all doors
at the stop light
(Put your stunna shades) (Put Your Stunna Shades On)
Lyrics submitted by kmk_natasha
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"'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."
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