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."
How could you be so cold?
As the winter wind blows
Remember that you're talking to me though
You need to watch the way you talk to me, you know
After all the things we've been through
After all the things we got into
There are some things you haven't told me
I did some things but that's the old me
Now you wanna get me back and you gonna show me
You walk around like you don't know me
You got a new friend, well I've got me
In the end it's still so lonely
In the night I hear them talk, the coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so Dr. Evil?
You're bringing out a side of me that I don't know
I decided we weren't gonna speak, so
Why are we up 3 a.m. on the phone?
Why would she be so mad at me for?
You, I don't know, she's hot and cold
I won't stop, 'cause I know
How this thing's gonna go
You tell your friends you're gonna leave me
They say they don't see what you see in me
You wait a couple months and you'll see
You'll never find somebody better than me
In the night I hear them talk, the coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?
Talk and talk and talk and talk
Baby let's just knock it off
They don't know what we've been through
They don't know about me and you
Why there's something new to see
You'll just keep hating me
We'll just be enemies
I know you can't believe
In the night I hear them talk, the coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless
As the winter wind blows
Remember that you're talking to me though
You need to watch the way you talk to me, you know
After all the things we've been through
After all the things we got into
There are some things you haven't told me
I did some things but that's the old me
Now you wanna get me back and you gonna show me
You walk around like you don't know me
You got a new friend, well I've got me
In the end it's still so lonely
In the night I hear them talk, the coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so Dr. Evil?
You're bringing out a side of me that I don't know
I decided we weren't gonna speak, so
Why are we up 3 a.m. on the phone?
Why would she be so mad at me for?
You, I don't know, she's hot and cold
I won't stop, 'cause I know
How this thing's gonna go
You tell your friends you're gonna leave me
They say they don't see what you see in me
You wait a couple months and you'll see
You'll never find somebody better than me
In the night I hear them talk, the coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless?
Talk and talk and talk and talk
Baby let's just knock it off
They don't know what we've been through
They don't know about me and you
Why there's something new to see
You'll just keep hating me
We'll just be enemies
I know you can't believe
In the night I hear them talk, the coldest story ever told
Somewhere far along this road he lost his soul
To a woman so heartless
How could you be so heartless?
How could you be so heartless
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"'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."
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