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."
Dead of the night we go into the world unknown
Just let us go
I Know that I'm breathing slow, inhaling smoke I just awoke
A Bottle Of pills I'm choking down with dancing demons all around
But I'm hearing sounds, and I know I'm hearing voices now
With all the build they scratch you down, it's Armageddon again
I drink the poison from the crown and make a toast to the end
For all the kids and all the ones who need the sun
Who have just begun to feel the pain
Cause they have close the stairway
I See the trees burn every time I fall a sleep
I lessen all my standards
We can't hide from birds that speak
That speaks inside of me
I saw you walking into a room
I saw a face I thought I knew
And all along it was true, it was me
It wasn't You
I asked myself if it was the truth, A guilty isn't proof
A finger print well what's that do
Cause gasoline can burn that to
So hide your knives and save yourself
It's just you there's no one else
Will I change, the time will tell
I can not dream what is this HELL
So maybe I should stop this time, And draw the line
And see the light
But it's to late I can't this time
I lost my mind to save the night
I See the trees burn every time I fall a sleep
I lessen all my standards
We can't hide from birds that speak
That speaks inside of me
If I lay my head down would you admire
The I can close my eyes
And I have put my conscious for the choir
Who's to judge
Who's insane
Watch it all wash away
Save us trouble what we lived it
It doesn't die it only fades
If can't feel there isn't pain
Another day it's all the same
I always pray I never change
It seems to me we 're all to blame
Push your matches, Feel the rain
Burn This Fucking World the Same
I See the trees burn every time I fall a sleep
I lessen all my standards
We can't hide from birds that speak
That speaks inside of me
I See the trees burn every time I fall a sleep
I lessen all my standards
We can't hide from birds that speak
That speaks inside of me
Just let us go
I Know that I'm breathing slow, inhaling smoke I just awoke
A Bottle Of pills I'm choking down with dancing demons all around
But I'm hearing sounds, and I know I'm hearing voices now
With all the build they scratch you down, it's Armageddon again
I drink the poison from the crown and make a toast to the end
For all the kids and all the ones who need the sun
Who have just begun to feel the pain
Cause they have close the stairway
I See the trees burn every time I fall a sleep
I lessen all my standards
We can't hide from birds that speak
That speaks inside of me
I saw you walking into a room
I saw a face I thought I knew
And all along it was true, it was me
It wasn't You
I asked myself if it was the truth, A guilty isn't proof
A finger print well what's that do
Cause gasoline can burn that to
So hide your knives and save yourself
It's just you there's no one else
Will I change, the time will tell
I can not dream what is this HELL
So maybe I should stop this time, And draw the line
And see the light
But it's to late I can't this time
I lost my mind to save the night
I See the trees burn every time I fall a sleep
I lessen all my standards
We can't hide from birds that speak
That speaks inside of me
If I lay my head down would you admire
The I can close my eyes
And I have put my conscious for the choir
Who's to judge
Who's insane
Watch it all wash away
Save us trouble what we lived it
It doesn't die it only fades
If can't feel there isn't pain
Another day it's all the same
I always pray I never change
It seems to me we 're all to blame
Push your matches, Feel the rain
Burn This Fucking World the Same
I See the trees burn every time I fall a sleep
I lessen all my standards
We can't hide from birds that speak
That speaks inside of me
I See the trees burn every time I fall a sleep
I lessen all my standards
We can't hide from birds that speak
That speaks inside of me
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