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."
She's over by my place as decoration
I preserved her face for inspiration
Flashlights from authorities
Lanterns brighten up the scene
Familiar faces of the long dead
The mad butcher goes bump in the night
And loneliness it makes nights endless
The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness
And sometimes I end up with a deadache
I end up with a deadache
I can't feel myself I'm sinking deeper
Mother's not really gone I'm dressing in her
Dusty musty shrine to ma
Board the door so she'll keep long
There's no way that she'll be leaving me
The mad butcher goes bump in the night
And loneliness it makes nights endless
The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness
Sometimes I get a deadache, yeah
Sometimes I get a deadache, yeah
Sometimes
In November I lost my family
They took away all my friends and blamed insanity
The mad butcher goes bump in the night
And loneliness it makes nights endless
The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness
And sometimes, sometimes
The mad butcher goes bump in the night
And loneliness it makes nights endless
The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness
And sometimes I end up with a deadache
I end up with a deadache,
I end up with a deadache
I end up with a deadache, deadache, deadache
I preserved her face for inspiration
Flashlights from authorities
Lanterns brighten up the scene
Familiar faces of the long dead
The mad butcher goes bump in the night
And loneliness it makes nights endless
The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness
And sometimes I end up with a deadache
I end up with a deadache
I can't feel myself I'm sinking deeper
Mother's not really gone I'm dressing in her
Dusty musty shrine to ma
Board the door so she'll keep long
There's no way that she'll be leaving me
The mad butcher goes bump in the night
And loneliness it makes nights endless
The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness
Sometimes I get a deadache, yeah
Sometimes I get a deadache, yeah
Sometimes
In November I lost my family
They took away all my friends and blamed insanity
The mad butcher goes bump in the night
And loneliness it makes nights endless
The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness
And sometimes, sometimes
The mad butcher goes bump in the night
And loneliness it makes nights endless
The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight
It incubates my grief and madness
And sometimes I end up with a deadache
I end up with a deadache,
I end up with a deadache
I end up with a deadache, deadache, deadache
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Deadache Lyrics as written by - Mr Amen - Mr Lordi
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Mr Lordi said in an interview that " Deadached " is a type of slang for being tired. I think this song refers to Lordi after winning the Eurovision, with all the Cameras in their face.
"Flashlights from authorities Lanterns brighten up the scene Familiar faces of the long dead"
This says to me. Flashlights, being the cameras. Authority's being the paparazzi. Laterns brighten up the scene. Again cameras. And as for the long dead i feel that, People who wanted nothing to do with Lordi for whatever reason are now starting to notice them.
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I think that's correct, but it's also about the Ed Gein. At least, to me.
The song is about the famous murderer and body snatcher Ed Gein. After his mother's death he dug up graves and collected body parts to recreate her appearance. He began to create a "woman suit" so that "he could become his mother—to literally crawl into her skin".
"She's over by my place as decoration I preserved her face for inspiration"
" Mother's not really gone I'm dressing in her Dusty musty shrine to ma Board the door so she'll keep long There's no way that she'll be leaving me"
"Familiar faces of the long dead" - he used to exhume freshly buried bodies of women which resembled his mother.
Ed was known as "Butcher of Plainfield". "The mad butcher goes bump in the night"
When authorities arrested him and searched his farm they found many human body parts: "Flashlights from authorities Lanterns brighten up the scene"
"The farm bathes in the thumping moonlight It incubates my grief and madness"
"Deadache" is a word-play of the words "dead" and "headache" describing Ed's mental condition.