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 was - I was - I was
Raped at birth
I was - I was - I was
Brutalized by beastly girth
I was raped at birth!
When I was a boy
My life was destroyed
I was raped at birth
I was not overjoyed
When I was a man
I hid in the can
I was raped at birth
Yes that was the plan
I went to my mom
She hit me with a pan
I was raped at birth!
Scumdog sex planet
Convulsing breeding hive
Spit forth the progeny
Through rivers of slime I writhe
Seeking warmth and light
Life begins, the world so bright
Too soon from the womb I'm torn
As penis plums the newly born
Mangled and tangled I flop to the floor
Speckled and spackled I run for the door
Though I'm but a baby I'm still eight foot two
I'll be raped at birth for the pleasure of you
I was raped yes raped at birth
When I was a lad
Halfway out the womb
They ruined my rectum
I fucked half the room
Now I'm a man
But I won't grow up
If you rape me again
I think that I'll throw up
Fit me for a truss
With a times eight leather cup
I was raped at birth!
It went on for hours
Scalding hot, the golden showers
Manifesting pimple power
Penis-poking tingle-tower
Still, it seems unfair
One time I got raped with a chair
Still, good came of it
Like every time I shit
Mangled and tangled I flop to the floor
Speckled and spackled I run for the door
Though I'm but a baby I'm still eight foot two
I'll be raped at birth for the pleasure of you
I was raped at birth
My masters knew well knew why they raped the newly born
The line at the door spoke of new forms of porn
I was raped at birth
The wretched infants were sullen, forlorn
The skin it was warm
We lived in a dorm
After we'd been raped we were all given weapons
Your grave is my glory, your face I will step in
But I'm not complaining that my life is fucked
I was raped at birth, from then on everything sucked
Everything sucked!
Everything sucked!
We were all raped at birth
It fucking hurts
Chased from room to room
Pinned in a corner
Bing bang boom!
Mangled and tangled I flop to the floor
Speckled and spackled I run for the door
Though I'm but a baby I'm still eight foot two
I'll be raped at birth for the pleasure of you
I was raped at birth
Raped at birth
I was - I was - I was
Brutalized by beastly girth
I was raped at birth!
When I was a boy
My life was destroyed
I was raped at birth
I was not overjoyed
When I was a man
I hid in the can
I was raped at birth
Yes that was the plan
I went to my mom
She hit me with a pan
I was raped at birth!
Scumdog sex planet
Convulsing breeding hive
Spit forth the progeny
Through rivers of slime I writhe
Seeking warmth and light
Life begins, the world so bright
Too soon from the womb I'm torn
As penis plums the newly born
Mangled and tangled I flop to the floor
Speckled and spackled I run for the door
Though I'm but a baby I'm still eight foot two
I'll be raped at birth for the pleasure of you
I was raped yes raped at birth
When I was a lad
Halfway out the womb
They ruined my rectum
I fucked half the room
Now I'm a man
But I won't grow up
If you rape me again
I think that I'll throw up
Fit me for a truss
With a times eight leather cup
I was raped at birth!
It went on for hours
Scalding hot, the golden showers
Manifesting pimple power
Penis-poking tingle-tower
Still, it seems unfair
One time I got raped with a chair
Still, good came of it
Like every time I shit
Mangled and tangled I flop to the floor
Speckled and spackled I run for the door
Though I'm but a baby I'm still eight foot two
I'll be raped at birth for the pleasure of you
I was raped at birth
My masters knew well knew why they raped the newly born
The line at the door spoke of new forms of porn
I was raped at birth
The wretched infants were sullen, forlorn
The skin it was warm
We lived in a dorm
After we'd been raped we were all given weapons
Your grave is my glory, your face I will step in
But I'm not complaining that my life is fucked
I was raped at birth, from then on everything sucked
Everything sucked!
Everything sucked!
We were all raped at birth
It fucking hurts
Chased from room to room
Pinned in a corner
Bing bang boom!
Mangled and tangled I flop to the floor
Speckled and spackled I run for the door
Though I'm but a baby I'm still eight foot two
I'll be raped at birth for the pleasure of you
I was raped at birth
Lyrics submitted by syko_brat
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