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."
Under snow full of ash
Draw to you like the 5 draws
Cold hands like doing crash
Wanna say I love you sometimes, but it aint happenin'
Other times I'm back in the cold, frost appears not in the winter only
It gets so cold, still we keep comin' out for more
We just let it pourin' right
See the more we hide behind slammin' doors tomorrow surely we'll die
I can't believe they would flee so easily we ain't love deprived
Girl we just make somethin' divine, less perfect, more human with time
Until then I try so go ahead now
You may shoot, you may cut, you may kill me girl
Your words, your eyes, in and out of this crazy world
And still I rise, like it I rise.
She was stuck between a rock and a hard hard place
Came home, runi' wild, in and out of emptiness
And still you rise, like it you rise.
I wanna tell you sometimes, it feels like we've killed the world
Don't wanna leave you like no mercy left at all
Then I don't know where the love, will come back into our lives
It feels like saving the world, saving the world
You and I
Me matan
Estos momentos me matan
Me ponen al borde
De un grito me sacan
De quisio mi locura ni la drogas me la curan
Y aunque el cielo pa me jura
Se lo soy lo que soy
Soy el que duda
Se me quiebra la calma
Y ahora siento que sigo
Esta flecha hacia el muelle
Al final del camino
Y al final no me sofoco
El aire puro respiro
Al sentir tu aroma,
Despertar contigo
A thousand roses isolated and everybody knows
We cry, we try, try to get it together for sure
And still we'll rise, like it we'll rise
Suga' suga', i was dreamin' last night about you
Wrapped up in real talk i will not lose
And still we'll rise, and still we'll rise
Like it we'll rise
I wanna tell you sometimes, it feels like we've killed the world
Don't wanna leave you like no mercy left at all
Then I don't know where the love, will come back into our lives
It feels like saving the world, saving the world
You and I
We saved the world, we killed the world
We saved the world, we killed the world
We saved the wolrd, tonight
(We saved the wolrd,tonight)
We saved the world, we killed the world
We saved the world, we killed the world
We saved the wolrd, tonight
Yeah
I wanna tell you sometimes, it feels like we've killed the world
Don't wanna leave you like no mercy left at all
Then I don't know where the love, will come back into our lives
It feels like saving the world, saving the world
You and I
Me matan
Me matan
Draw to you like the 5 draws
Cold hands like doing crash
Wanna say I love you sometimes, but it aint happenin'
Other times I'm back in the cold, frost appears not in the winter only
It gets so cold, still we keep comin' out for more
We just let it pourin' right
See the more we hide behind slammin' doors tomorrow surely we'll die
I can't believe they would flee so easily we ain't love deprived
Girl we just make somethin' divine, less perfect, more human with time
Until then I try so go ahead now
You may shoot, you may cut, you may kill me girl
Your words, your eyes, in and out of this crazy world
And still I rise, like it I rise.
She was stuck between a rock and a hard hard place
Came home, runi' wild, in and out of emptiness
And still you rise, like it you rise.
I wanna tell you sometimes, it feels like we've killed the world
Don't wanna leave you like no mercy left at all
Then I don't know where the love, will come back into our lives
It feels like saving the world, saving the world
You and I
Me matan
Estos momentos me matan
Me ponen al borde
De un grito me sacan
De quisio mi locura ni la drogas me la curan
Y aunque el cielo pa me jura
Se lo soy lo que soy
Soy el que duda
Se me quiebra la calma
Y ahora siento que sigo
Esta flecha hacia el muelle
Al final del camino
Y al final no me sofoco
El aire puro respiro
Al sentir tu aroma,
Despertar contigo
A thousand roses isolated and everybody knows
We cry, we try, try to get it together for sure
And still we'll rise, like it we'll rise
Suga' suga', i was dreamin' last night about you
Wrapped up in real talk i will not lose
And still we'll rise, and still we'll rise
Like it we'll rise
I wanna tell you sometimes, it feels like we've killed the world
Don't wanna leave you like no mercy left at all
Then I don't know where the love, will come back into our lives
It feels like saving the world, saving the world
You and I
We saved the world, we killed the world
We saved the world, we killed the world
We saved the wolrd, tonight
(We saved the wolrd,tonight)
We saved the world, we killed the world
We saved the world, we killed the world
We saved the wolrd, tonight
Yeah
I wanna tell you sometimes, it feels like we've killed the world
Don't wanna leave you like no mercy left at all
Then I don't know where the love, will come back into our lives
It feels like saving the world, saving the world
You and I
Me matan
Me matan
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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.
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