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."
White Light
Mission classified
Neural Probe
Map your mind TARGET
Run the maze my loyal pet
Recall your orders and the rest forget
YOU ARE CLOSE
So close to the perfect crime
A human bullet in a chambered mind
An appetite for profanity
Everything you were made to be
Fracturing the pristine mind
Crack the shell and reach inside
Manipulating all we find to do or die
Conflict borne of man-machines
Solidifies our chosen scheme
It's so much more than what it seems behind your eyes
White Light
Falling Star
The you you knew is now the slave you are DANCING
To a dirge that sings within
A waltz of damage just beneath the skin
RHYTHMIC DEATH
Death tapped out by your puppet toes
Another current in the undertow
Below the waves we weave the curse
To drown the world, choke the earth
Assembling the fractured mind
Puzzle equals suicide
Create the killer from inside
Some dreams must die
Slaughtering ability
Bred in you through trickery
Surrender blindly, slake our greed
And stain the skies
DOMINATE - Until we hear their cries
DOMINATE - While they believe our lies
DOMINATE - Salt and twist the knife
DOMINATE - Until the wound is ripe
Above theocracy we reign
Sharing death, bearing pain
In god's name all the heretics must die
Behind Democracy we rule
And Communists we use as tools
All the world's devoted to our crime
And still they trust their minds?
[Solo: BV - JG]
Above theocracy we reign
Sharing death, bearing pain
In god's name all the heretics must die
Behind Democracy we rule
And Communists we use as tools
All the world's devoted to our crime
Mission classified
Neural Probe
Map your mind TARGET
Run the maze my loyal pet
Recall your orders and the rest forget
YOU ARE CLOSE
So close to the perfect crime
A human bullet in a chambered mind
An appetite for profanity
Everything you were made to be
Fracturing the pristine mind
Crack the shell and reach inside
Manipulating all we find to do or die
Conflict borne of man-machines
Solidifies our chosen scheme
It's so much more than what it seems behind your eyes
White Light
Falling Star
The you you knew is now the slave you are DANCING
To a dirge that sings within
A waltz of damage just beneath the skin
RHYTHMIC DEATH
Death tapped out by your puppet toes
Another current in the undertow
Below the waves we weave the curse
To drown the world, choke the earth
Assembling the fractured mind
Puzzle equals suicide
Create the killer from inside
Some dreams must die
Slaughtering ability
Bred in you through trickery
Surrender blindly, slake our greed
And stain the skies
DOMINATE - Until we hear their cries
DOMINATE - While they believe our lies
DOMINATE - Salt and twist the knife
DOMINATE - Until the wound is ripe
Above theocracy we reign
Sharing death, bearing pain
In god's name all the heretics must die
Behind Democracy we rule
And Communists we use as tools
All the world's devoted to our crime
And still they trust their minds?
[Solo: BV - JG]
Above theocracy we reign
Sharing death, bearing pain
In god's name all the heretics must die
Behind Democracy we rule
And Communists we use as tools
All the world's devoted to our crime
Lyrics submitted by Ninji-X
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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."
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