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'm all in the spot
Posted up
Park the drop
Chill in the cut
See a couple hots
I'm like "what up"
Nigga on a watch tryin ta find me one
I'm in disguise
Far away parked my ride
Ain't even wearing my ice
I don't need nothing to shine
I'm looking for someone
Just like that
Hearing in her tongue
Just like that
Gotta have some fun and ain't tripping on
Does them freaky things (just like that)
Thick all in them jeans (just like that)
Goes down like submarines (just like that)
Just like that (just like that)(just like that)
The music's bumpin'
Sippin' on cognac
Pushin' up on somethin'
Sho mack
She gotta paper on them jeans
I'm tryin' to
Take off them paper then them jeans
Bringin' mo game than kobe
On a good day
Tryin' to cross her over
In a good way
Ghetto, boughi, valley girl, hood rat
I want it all,
Just like that
Somebody who burns in the kitchen
Maybe even has a couple chillings
Never be trippin and listen
Ready to try new positions
Got her own dough, maybe
We can drive matchin benzes
Baby is cool but has visions
Really puts it down in bed, with precision
Girlfriends in the back and toe lickin
Don't listen to the rumors from them bitches
I need a shorty that's down for whatever
Someone I can call on whenever
That can hold me down under pressure
A lady that got her own cheddar
Like yah your girl is cute, but dawgs, mines looks better
Gotta be real sweet and tender
Guys want a wife and not
Just hit her
Haters mad as
Cause I'm wit her
Do you understand my niggas,
She's gotta be,
Just like that
Posted up
Park the drop
Chill in the cut
See a couple hots
I'm like "what up"
Nigga on a watch tryin ta find me one
I'm in disguise
Far away parked my ride
Ain't even wearing my ice
I don't need nothing to shine
I'm looking for someone
Just like that
Hearing in her tongue
Just like that
Gotta have some fun and ain't tripping on
Does them freaky things (just like that)
Thick all in them jeans (just like that)
Goes down like submarines (just like that)
Just like that (just like that)(just like that)
The music's bumpin'
Sippin' on cognac
Pushin' up on somethin'
Sho mack
She gotta paper on them jeans
I'm tryin' to
Take off them paper then them jeans
Bringin' mo game than kobe
On a good day
Tryin' to cross her over
In a good way
Ghetto, boughi, valley girl, hood rat
I want it all,
Just like that
Somebody who burns in the kitchen
Maybe even has a couple chillings
Never be trippin and listen
Ready to try new positions
Got her own dough, maybe
We can drive matchin benzes
Baby is cool but has visions
Really puts it down in bed, with precision
Girlfriends in the back and toe lickin
Don't listen to the rumors from them bitches
I need a shorty that's down for whatever
Someone I can call on whenever
That can hold me down under pressure
A lady that got her own cheddar
Like yah your girl is cute, but dawgs, mines looks better
Gotta be real sweet and tender
Guys want a wife and not
Just hit her
Haters mad as
Cause I'm wit her
Do you understand my niggas,
She's gotta be,
Just like that
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