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."
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play, the fool
Tonight, tonight
I'm ready for your drama
Stay calm, [Incomprehensible]
You're throwing every hook tonight
Your charismatic lines
Make tears run down their cheeks
I've lost the only thing I need
Here's to the plaintiff
And now you've taking her away
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play, your fool
Pull out the pin
Fallen a bomb grenade now
Don't shoot, don't shoot
I'm just a kid like you
We fight for billionaires who bomb our city streets
What do I chase?
To find a use for corporate green
Here's to the propaganda
And then they take your life away
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
And now that war has been declared
How long until bombs burst in air
We've come too far
Just to let this die, to throw this away
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
(You're not the ones)
In your play
(We're not the ones)
In your play, your fool
(We are not the fools)
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play, the fool
Tonight, tonight
I'm ready for your drama
Stay calm, [Incomprehensible]
You're throwing every hook tonight
Your charismatic lines
Make tears run down their cheeks
I've lost the only thing I need
Here's to the plaintiff
And now you've taking her away
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play, your fool
Pull out the pin
Fallen a bomb grenade now
Don't shoot, don't shoot
I'm just a kid like you
We fight for billionaires who bomb our city streets
What do I chase?
To find a use for corporate green
Here's to the propaganda
And then they take your life away
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
And now that war has been declared
How long until bombs burst in air
We've come too far
Just to let this die, to throw this away
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
I've always been your favorite game
And all the world's your sparkling stage
Just another extra in your play
(You're not the ones)
In your play
(We're not the ones)
In your play, your fool
(We are not the fools)
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We Are Not The World Lyrics as written by Joshua Bradford Neil Boshart
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
No Surprises
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
Magical
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I've always been your favorite game And all the world's your sparkling stage Just another ? in your play, the fool
..... the last line is Just another extra in your play, the fool.
thanks, i couldn't figure out what that word was
It's not "sparkling stage" it's "spot-lit stage" :) For the meaning; Well, this song is directed to his wife. Who left him for hi best friend, leaving him with their six-year old daughter. Which we learned in "You're All I Have" was the one one thing that held him together. And because he was blamed for arision the took her. "And now you're taking her away".
"To find a use for corporate green"
may be..
"To find a use for corporate GREED"
not sure.. ^^
this song is about when he is takin to trail for setting his house on fire....his best friend wins custody of his daughter "and now theyv taken her away" and also about other things going on in the government, war and other things