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."
OMG! He broke up with me!
Now I hate the world,
and I hate you too, she said.
OMG! Tell me who's that girl
on his myspace?
I think I'll kill myself, she said.
Nobody likes an Angry Angelina!
Nobody likes to hang around a Crabby Christina!
You'll never forget all your problems
if you use hate to resolve them.
You have to let it go
and think of all the good things coming!
OMG! Did you look outside?
I can't believe it's snowing!
Now I really effin' hate my life, she said.
OMG! I have no Valentine!
'Cause nobody loves me!
And nobody gives a shit, she said.
You have to be like a Jolly Josephina!
Everybody loves you when you are a Happy Henrietta!
You have to realize that you can make it better.
Who cares about the weather
when you know it's going to change tomorrow?
Bratty Brenda, Mean Melissa,
Why you gotta be so mean?
Jealous Jody, Catty Cathy,
We don't want you on our team!
Too Cool Carol, Sour Sarah,
Why you gotta be so snotty?
Hateful Heather, Bully Brittney,
We don't want you at our party!
Now I hate the world,
and I hate you too, she said.
OMG! Tell me who's that girl
on his myspace?
I think I'll kill myself, she said.
Nobody likes an Angry Angelina!
Nobody likes to hang around a Crabby Christina!
You'll never forget all your problems
if you use hate to resolve them.
You have to let it go
and think of all the good things coming!
OMG! Did you look outside?
I can't believe it's snowing!
Now I really effin' hate my life, she said.
OMG! I have no Valentine!
'Cause nobody loves me!
And nobody gives a shit, she said.
You have to be like a Jolly Josephina!
Everybody loves you when you are a Happy Henrietta!
You have to realize that you can make it better.
Who cares about the weather
when you know it's going to change tomorrow?
Bratty Brenda, Mean Melissa,
Why you gotta be so mean?
Jealous Jody, Catty Cathy,
We don't want you on our team!
Too Cool Carol, Sour Sarah,
Why you gotta be so snotty?
Hateful Heather, Bully Brittney,
We don't want you at our party!
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They're making fun of the crowd of childish emotional people i like to refer to as the walking dead. Those girls who have a new boyfriend every other week. There primary means of comunication is myspace. They engage in drama skirmishs among themselves, then are once again best friends in aprox. 24 hours. They paint their faces thick with make up to hide their faces and insecurities. They never seem to make their own choices or even own jokes, just emulate what they see on mtv. They act extreemly selfish and as if they are being persicuted. "OMG! Did you look outside? I can't believe it's snowing! Now I really effin' hate my life, she said."
I'm sure you can think of at least one person you know who acts like this. It seems to me they started acting like this in jr high, and just never changed.
Even if you are under great persicution Romans 8:18 says, "18: For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.".
The Glory is refering to when we get to heaven if we are a member of the body of christ. ALL you have to do to be saved from hell is belive christ died on the cross for your sins. 1st corinthians 15:3-4 says " 3: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 4: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures".
you dont have to get water baptized, you dont have to be good. what could water do that Christs blood could cover, and what can you do for God that he cant?
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^ yeah i agree, except about the random religion part? no idea what that's all about but fuck man, i hate those people who just want attention and just comform to mtv and shit and don't do anything on their own, don't have any of their own opinions, completel unoriginal, annoying as hell