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."
My good friend, I fear there's no holiday.
We need a little more than less inbetween us where we're stuck.
We could have been a car crash on a highway anyday.
You see we could, all we need to do is try.
Always in pain. Why is it this way?
You don't have to explain nothing.
Soon I'll make a change.
Rules were meant to break.
We got to make this break, cause no one else will.
No one else will (no one)
No one else will (no one)
No one else will... care.
So my good friend, we're taking a holiday.
We need a little more than less inbetween us where we're stuck.
We could have been a car crash on a highway anyday.
You see we could, all we need to do is try.
I'm saving fate (I'm saving fate)
From wasting away (wasting away)
Soon we'll have to change, someday.
The star is page(?) away (star is away)
Fall into grace (fall into grace)
Gotta change this game, cause no one else will
No one else will (no one)
No one else will (no one)
No one else will...care.
So my good friend, we're taking a holiday (ahhh).
We need a little more than less in between us where we're stuck (ahhh).
We could have been a car crash on a highway anyday (ahhh).
You see we could, all we need to do is try.
ahhh, ahhh, ohhhh, baby.
My good friend, I fear there's no holiday.
We need a little more than less inbetween us where we're stuck.
So my good friend we're taking a holiday (ahhh).
We need a little more than less inbetween us where we're stuck (ahhh).
We could have been a car crash on a highway anyday (ahhh)
You see we could, all we need to do is try.
Baby
ahhhh.
We need a little more than less inbetween us where we're stuck.
We could have been a car crash on a highway anyday.
You see we could, all we need to do is try.
Always in pain. Why is it this way?
You don't have to explain nothing.
Soon I'll make a change.
Rules were meant to break.
We got to make this break, cause no one else will.
No one else will (no one)
No one else will (no one)
No one else will... care.
So my good friend, we're taking a holiday.
We need a little more than less inbetween us where we're stuck.
We could have been a car crash on a highway anyday.
You see we could, all we need to do is try.
I'm saving fate (I'm saving fate)
From wasting away (wasting away)
Soon we'll have to change, someday.
The star is page(?) away (star is away)
Fall into grace (fall into grace)
Gotta change this game, cause no one else will
No one else will (no one)
No one else will (no one)
No one else will...care.
So my good friend, we're taking a holiday (ahhh).
We need a little more than less in between us where we're stuck (ahhh).
We could have been a car crash on a highway anyday (ahhh).
You see we could, all we need to do is try.
ahhh, ahhh, ohhhh, baby.
My good friend, I fear there's no holiday.
We need a little more than less inbetween us where we're stuck.
So my good friend we're taking a holiday (ahhh).
We need a little more than less inbetween us where we're stuck (ahhh).
We could have been a car crash on a highway anyday (ahhh)
You see we could, all we need to do is try.
Baby
ahhhh.
Lyrics submitted by onstagebabe04
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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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