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."
Can't believe what you've done to me,
you got me feeling like a cloud in a stormy weather,
obviously it is hard to see that the sun will never shine when we are together,
how can you be so ignorant to the fact that I'mma be in this pain forever,
when you touch me i go insane for a part like a wave of a baby feather,
you believe that your holding me,
can't you see?
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and i am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
Don't you come with your medicine and be a doctor in the time of a needy child,
I got my clothes and a mess for you, that's my hair to the side and I'm going wild,
tell me that you have turned around, write a letter to my mother cos she getting better,
You can even do the crazy stuff because the shame is in the fact you have never met her!
Can't believe what you do to me,
Can't you see?
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
(Oh How You) Oh how you need me,
(Desperately) Desperately need me,
(Wish You Could) Wish you could love me,
(Uncut Just To) Uncut just to need me.
I'm crying blood,
(cry cry cry) I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
you got me feeling like a cloud in a stormy weather,
obviously it is hard to see that the sun will never shine when we are together,
how can you be so ignorant to the fact that I'mma be in this pain forever,
when you touch me i go insane for a part like a wave of a baby feather,
you believe that your holding me,
can't you see?
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and i am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
Don't you come with your medicine and be a doctor in the time of a needy child,
I got my clothes and a mess for you, that's my hair to the side and I'm going wild,
tell me that you have turned around, write a letter to my mother cos she getting better,
You can even do the crazy stuff because the shame is in the fact you have never met her!
Can't believe what you do to me,
Can't you see?
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
(Oh How You) Oh how you need me,
(Desperately) Desperately need me,
(Wish You Could) Wish you could love me,
(Uncut Just To) Uncut just to need me.
I'm crying blood,
(cry cry cry) I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying blood,
I'm crying tears from my eyes that i can't deny
and I am falling like a comet from the broken sky.
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