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."
Hate. Falling three feet to the ground.
Face down on the cold floor of a well-oiled SF pigsty I met my one true love.
Feel youth crushed somewhere between concrete & boot, another victim of the lower hate.
You are not my god. You think this is funny don't you pig?
How the helpless freak squirms beneath our state sanctioned soles, but what is he laughing at?
There was nothing padded about a wagon full of mace.
Rotator cuff hyper extends behind my back ribs cracking beneath a rain of sticks & heels
falling down like the rain outside.
Oh yeah bitch, I'm gonna remember your face your name your number;
and when I crawl out of this hole I'm going to make you all mine.
Auschwitz Kent State Chi-Town 68 Tianamen Waco
Face down on the cold floor of a well-oiled SF pigsty I met my one true love.
Feel youth crushed somewhere between concrete & boot, another victim of the lower hate.
You are not my god. You think this is funny don't you pig?
How the helpless freak squirms beneath our state sanctioned soles, but what is he laughing at?
There was nothing padded about a wagon full of mace.
Rotator cuff hyper extends behind my back ribs cracking beneath a rain of sticks & heels
falling down like the rain outside.
Oh yeah bitch, I'm gonna remember your face your name your number;
and when I crawl out of this hole I'm going to make you all mine.
Auschwitz Kent State Chi-Town 68 Tianamen Waco
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O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E. Lyrics as written by David Randall Blythe Chris Adler
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Song's about an experience the band had in San Francisco where they ran into some asshole cops that were fucking with them while they were drunk as hell
"This song is definately my favorite song on the record. Mark came up with the title of that song-"officer dickhead gets a black fucking eye"-and I was like Wow,thats perfect! So I wrote the lyrics to fit the title. One time I was out in the Bay Area, in San Francisco, and it was raining. A bunch of us were squatting in the Lower Haight in the house,just trying to get out of the rain. We werent partying or anything-we were just trying to find somewhere to sleep for the night . But the cops came and busted in and threw us in a paddy wagon,then maced the paddy wagon and drove us around San Francisco for about an hour. We got to the precinct,they yanked me out of the paddy wagon onto the concrete, and then 5 or 6 cops just started kicking the living shit out of me. I was so scared that I just started laughing. I was like,this is insane! This is hilarious! Im going to die! Its either that,or you just fall to pieces and cry. Theyre kicking me in the head,kicking me in the fucking ribs-cracked a couple of ribs. And I was just laughing,which pissed them off even more. Then,when they yanked me up, I remember looking at one female officer-because she was the worst,just laying into me cussing and shit-and I remember reading her name and badge number out loud to her, and saying, I remember you. I remember your face.Im gonna find you. They threw us in a cell for awhile ,then let us go, But that song is basically about getting the shit kicked out of you by the cops for trying to get out of the rain. So thank you very much, San Francisco police" Randy Blythe,Revolver Magazine
wow staindfan, you sure are intelligent.
Okay, question. Is he really holding out Waco for 30+ seconds or did they digitize that? If he did, that's wicked amazing.
I thought this might have been about the Kent State shootings... Dang ROTC...
I was thinking Auschwitz Kent State Chi-Town 68 Tianamen Waco might be the initials of the police woman the song name itself could be a reminder of how he's going to report them.
Police brutality. Damn pigs.
yeah.. but what the hell does "O.D.H.G.A.B.F.E." mean?
Fuck the police
" Fuk tha Po-lice" would have been better, staindfan.