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."
It goes one, one to the two three
People asking "Geo, what the hell does OOF! mean?"
You a true fiend you're the new thing I'm a cool king
Felix throwin the two seam
Only came here to tell you two things
OW! Be original UHH! it's unconditional
My unconventional means of marketin' things
Is hella ground up in a top-bottom scene
Rather leave people than the press
The press I guess it's a good thing
Got both on the team
If you focused like me
You know what I mean
The door knocks better hope it's not me
The kid rolls deep with musicians like Ozomatli
Bonafide trees breathe makin petrified knees
These neighbors Black Latin all types of Chinese
With a sudden European influx increase
Been fucked since the real estate bubble bursts now
in the real estate witnessin the homicide rate
Like back when the kids watched tapes of Menace and Juice
They need medicine truth is
No single man woman president can alter the present
by them goddamn selves, we movin in swells
One felled motion the monuments fell
Learned that from Hindu to do it yourself
It goes one, one to the two three
Crews on a hill gettin food at Fou Lee
Gonna take more than a few to fool me
Only get this timin if you study Kool G ooh wee
One to the two three
Cruise on a hill gettin food at Fou Lee
Gonna take more than a few to fool me
Only get this timin if you study Kool G oooh wee
It starts simmerin now
They start listenin now
When I travel then I'm missin the Sound
No particular style second round
See a trainer in the corner start to pick up a towel
Superhero in the eyes of my child
Guess I gotta live it out until he figures it out
Just an ordinary guy doin extraordinary things
Still got a 9 to 5 but from PM to AM
Seems we were made for the mayhem literally speakin
This is MC Foods Alaska to Beacon
Where the para lines reachin and we sleep underneath them
I keep em far from the leeches and the drunken collegiate
I was speakin with this cat in the back of the train
He said "Ten years for this? Transit is lame"
When you consider what we lost for the city to gain
It's more than neighbors and places it's memories mayne
"Whatever" he says, switch the topic instead
Get to talk about the Hawks and the Sonics and shit
Reminiscing on Dikembe on the floor with the ball
And he ball and we bawled and he's still pissed off
Anybody in the Town into sports God bless em
We heard that all underdogs go to Heaven
Tell em later, he says God willing
And now I gotta find my way up the hill once again
It goes one, one to the two three
Crews on a hill gettin food at Fou Lee
Gonna take more than a few to fool me
Only get this timin if you study Kool G ooh wee
One to the two three
Cruise on a hill gettin food at Fou Lee
Gonna take more than a few to fool me
Only get this timin if you study Cool G ooh wee
People asking "Geo, what the hell does OOF! mean?"
You a true fiend you're the new thing I'm a cool king
Felix throwin the two seam
Only came here to tell you two things
OW! Be original UHH! it's unconditional
My unconventional means of marketin' things
Is hella ground up in a top-bottom scene
Rather leave people than the press
The press I guess it's a good thing
Got both on the team
If you focused like me
You know what I mean
The door knocks better hope it's not me
The kid rolls deep with musicians like Ozomatli
Bonafide trees breathe makin petrified knees
These neighbors Black Latin all types of Chinese
With a sudden European influx increase
Been fucked since the real estate bubble bursts now
in the real estate witnessin the homicide rate
Like back when the kids watched tapes of Menace and Juice
They need medicine truth is
No single man woman president can alter the present
by them goddamn selves, we movin in swells
One felled motion the monuments fell
Learned that from Hindu to do it yourself
It goes one, one to the two three
Crews on a hill gettin food at Fou Lee
Gonna take more than a few to fool me
Only get this timin if you study Kool G ooh wee
One to the two three
Cruise on a hill gettin food at Fou Lee
Gonna take more than a few to fool me
Only get this timin if you study Kool G oooh wee
It starts simmerin now
They start listenin now
When I travel then I'm missin the Sound
No particular style second round
See a trainer in the corner start to pick up a towel
Superhero in the eyes of my child
Guess I gotta live it out until he figures it out
Just an ordinary guy doin extraordinary things
Still got a 9 to 5 but from PM to AM
Seems we were made for the mayhem literally speakin
This is MC Foods Alaska to Beacon
Where the para lines reachin and we sleep underneath them
I keep em far from the leeches and the drunken collegiate
I was speakin with this cat in the back of the train
He said "Ten years for this? Transit is lame"
When you consider what we lost for the city to gain
It's more than neighbors and places it's memories mayne
"Whatever" he says, switch the topic instead
Get to talk about the Hawks and the Sonics and shit
Reminiscing on Dikembe on the floor with the ball
And he ball and we bawled and he's still pissed off
Anybody in the Town into sports God bless em
We heard that all underdogs go to Heaven
Tell em later, he says God willing
And now I gotta find my way up the hill once again
It goes one, one to the two three
Crews on a hill gettin food at Fou Lee
Gonna take more than a few to fool me
Only get this timin if you study Kool G ooh wee
One to the two three
Cruise on a hill gettin food at Fou Lee
Gonna take more than a few to fool me
Only get this timin if you study Cool G ooh wee
Lyrics submitted by all-is-sun, edited by austing5
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