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."
Oh pain, am doing bad
I'm getting answers to some questions that I never should have asked
And it's getting old, it's decomposing fact
Just when I thought it couldn't get much worse
I stab me in the back
[Chorus]
I'd rather face the gallows
Cause nothing matters
And I'll just change my name
There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
I thought that I was working towards the truth
Thought if I wait long enough I'd put the passion to goo use
And in a flash cut to me with hated hands
In a fight without a cause I am a wounded veteran
[Chorus]
There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
It's not right now to lose control the way I do
I am a slave to this
I am a masochist
This ones got whiskers it's as old as ice it's nothing new
I am a slave to this
I am a masochist
[Chorus]
There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
I'm getting answers to some questions that I never should have asked
And it's getting old, it's decomposing fact
Just when I thought it couldn't get much worse
I stab me in the back
[Chorus]
I'd rather face the gallows
Cause nothing matters
And I'll just change my name
There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
I thought that I was working towards the truth
Thought if I wait long enough I'd put the passion to goo use
And in a flash cut to me with hated hands
In a fight without a cause I am a wounded veteran
[Chorus]
There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
It's not right now to lose control the way I do
I am a slave to this
I am a masochist
This ones got whiskers it's as old as ice it's nothing new
I am a slave to this
I am a masochist
[Chorus]
There is no love just appetite
And its consequences keep you up at night
Well appetite is lust at best
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
And it's up to us to figure out the rest
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Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
Jane's Addiction
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."
Punchline
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran sings about missing his former partner and learning important life lessons in the process on “Punchline.” This track tells a story of battling to get rid of emotions for a former lover, whom he now realized might not have loved him the same way. He’s now caught between accepting that fact and learning life lessons from it and going back to beg her for another chance.
Page
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
Plastic Bag
Ed Sheeran
Ed Sheeran
“Plastic Bag” is a song about searching for an escape from personal problems and hoping to find it in the lively atmosphere of a Saturday night party. Ed Sheeran tells the story of his friend and the myriad of troubles he is going through. Unable to find any solutions, this friend seeks a last resort in a party and the vanity that comes with it.
“I overthink and have trouble sleepin’ / All purpose gone and don’t have a reason / And there’s no doctor to stop this bleedin’ / So I left home and jumped in the deep end,” Ed Sheeran sings in verse one. He continues by adding that this person is feeling the weight of having disappointed his father and doesn’t have any friends to rely on in this difficult moment. In the second verse, Ed sings about the role of grief in his friend’s plight and his dwindling faith in prayer. “Saturday night is givin’ me a reason to rely on the strobe lights / The lifeline of a promise in a shot glass, and I’ll take that / If you’re givin’ out love from a plastic bag,” Ed sings on the chorus, as his friend turns to new vices in hopes of feeling better.
The narrator is seeing how love has disappeared in lieu of one night stands and sexual appetite. He doesn't want to exist in a world where love isn't the most important thing anymore.
Really sad song, in part because it's so true. One of my favorites off the new album.
I'm loving the new bayside. I plan on buying it the day it comes out (even though i already downloaded it). Took a few listens to get into it but even on the first listen this song and rochambo stood out as my clear favorites. This song seems like its about a relationship in which he keeps getting hurt (possibly cheated on) but he doesn't want to believe it and keeps going back for more, so to speak. Even if thats not what the song is about it speaks to me in that way because ive been in that same sort of situation...
i think it's "appetite is lust at best". this song is fucking sick though.
I feel he is singing from the perspective of St. Valentine from where we get Valentine's Day from. St. Valentine has given up on love and no longer want to be associated with love. He rather face the gallows which is where you get hanged to death. St valentine was a mytar after all and hes rather be hung. he also wants to change his name so he is no longer associated with love....thats my though.. .What do you tihnk?
Pretty much sounds to me like he wants nothing to do with love anymore since it's meaning has lost its value. I think he says love is just another word for lust for each other, nothing more.
This is my favorite song off the new album, and I pretty much agree with how Anthony words this new song.
any1 see a connection to The Scarlet Letter?
pretorben = agreeeeed
This song means a lot to me as Im starting to give up loving and probably i`d rather face the gallows too lol. THERE IS NO LOVE JUST APETITE AND ITS CONSEQUENCES KEEP YOU UP AT NIGHT! HAHA THIS IS LEGEND
Bayside is amazing, cuz you can both analyze their lyrics (which are gorgeous) and play air guitar while jumping on your bed to them.
I think this song is about how love is now non-existant nowadays. Sex is a way of showing your love for another person in a physical way, but turns out the love isn't there anymore. I think Anthony is saying that he'd rather be dead then have to go through life alone in a lustful world. He's striving so hard to find true love but always ends up getting hurt, and it's eating away, thus trying to say it's up to us to figure out the rest. Like he said in "I and I"..."I'm learning where to stand or to tread lightly," and love seems to be where he's treading lightly. Idk just my thoughts.