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."
Napalm, napalm, napalm showers
Showed the cowards
Weren't there to mess around
Heat exhaustion
Mind distortion
Military victory mounted on innocent ground
Hearing voices from miles away
Saying things never said
Seeing shadows in the light of the day
Waging a war inside my head
War inside my head
Years and years of
Bloodshed and warfare
Our mission was only to get in and kill
A free vacation
Of palm trees and shrapnel
Trading innocence for permanent psychotic hell
Hearing voices from miles away
Saying things never said
Seeing shadows in the light of the day
Waging a war inside my head
Feeling strangers staring my way
Reading minds never read
Tasting danger with each word I say
Waging a war inside my
Showed the cowards
Weren't there to mess around
Heat exhaustion
Mind distortion
Military victory mounted on innocent ground
Hearing voices from miles away
Saying things never said
Seeing shadows in the light of the day
Waging a war inside my head
War inside my head
Years and years of
Bloodshed and warfare
Our mission was only to get in and kill
A free vacation
Of palm trees and shrapnel
Trading innocence for permanent psychotic hell
Hearing voices from miles away
Saying things never said
Seeing shadows in the light of the day
Waging a war inside my head
Feeling strangers staring my way
Reading minds never read
Tasting danger with each word I say
Waging a war inside my
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This song apparently tells about a(/the) soldier in the vietnam war. It tells about the psychologigal problems the man faces after years of combat in the rain forests, fighting for his life, his only mission to kill the enemy.
Kinda like the movie "Taxi Driver" Pornoy's a big fan of Scorsese films!
The song sort of reminds me of Metallica's "For Whom the Bell Tolls". Both great songs.
WRONG!!! Metallica sucks tho the max. I havn't really listened to the whole 6DOIT album but I heard this song for the first time on the Live At Budokon dvd.
Everytime I hear this, it reminds me of my Grandfather in WWII. He wasn't on the frontline yet he suffered the same pyschologicial effectss as soldiers after the war.
Dream Theatre covered the whole Master of Puppet's album during a live show so you can hardly say they suck in a Dream Theatre lyrics discussion lol.
Anyways I agree with the first post :-) Good song
SHELLSHOCK!
More accurately, post-traumatic stress disorder. Many soldiers come back from wars very paranoid, even stuff like fireworks or loud bangs can make them have a flashback.
this is my favourite part of the six degrees
yes i agree
The intro has like a Slayer(South Of Heaven) feel to it.
Were learning Vietnam in history and when i sit in class this song just runs through my head.
this song haunts me alot, cuz i've heard many stories about soldiers experiencing shellshock, and that makes me not wanna go to war