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I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
Well, I saw skies are red
Well, I saw skies are red
Well, I saw skies are red
I was born and I was
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
Dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
Well, I saw skies are red
Well, I saw skies are red
Well, I saw skies are red
I was born and I was
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
I'm gonna give my despair
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
Well, I saw mushroom head
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
I was born and I was dead
Dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead
Dead, dead, dead, dead
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This song seemingly tackles the methods of deception those who manipulate others use to get victims to follow their demands, as well as diverting attention away from important issues. They'll also use it as a means to convince people to hate or kill others by pretending acts of terrorism were committed by the enemy when the acts themselves were done by the masters of control to promote discrimination and hate. It also reinforces the idea that these manipulative forces operate in various locations, infiltrating everyday life without detection, and propagate any and everywhere.
In general, it highlights the danger of hidden agendas, manipulation, and distraction, serving as a critique of those who exploit chaos and confusion to control and gain power, depicting a cautionary tale against falling into their traps. It encourages us to question the narratives presented to us and remain vigilant against manipulation in various parts of society.
Mountain Song
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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."
Mountain Song
Jane's Addiction
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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."
Page
Ed Sheeran
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There aren’t many things that’ll hurt more than giving love a chance against your better judgement only to have your heart crushed yet again. Ed Sheeran tells such a story on “Page.” On this track, he is devastated to have lost his lover and even more saddened by the feeling that he may never move on from this.
There's another possible meaning: in German the word Pilzkopf (mushroom head) means the haircut that the Beatles wore in their early days - the so-called "moptop". So the song might also be describing the profound effect that seeing the Beatles play had on members of Can: "When I saw the moptops, I was born (to new possibilities in music and life) and dead (to my old way of life).
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilzkopf
Psilocybin, nuclear war. Born, dead.
I think this is about being on the recieving end of a nuclear attack. the mushroom head is a big mushroom-cloud explosion. the narrator (perhaps the words of an infant) was born and dead in an instant. or something, i dont know :P
Great visual, right?
well i wouldn't doubt this concerns both a nuclear bomb aaaaand a magic mushroom hahah
Bought this when it first came out. Always thought it was "I'm gonna end my despair."
I'm thinking it's both the little shroom and the big cloud, yeah. Damo had room in his head for both.
Well, yeah, I get the "mushroom head" and the "skies were red" part, but what Mushroom was really all about was that there was a nuclear attack somewhere which was compared to the nuclear grenade dropped at the beginning of Oh Yeah. A lot of people have been posting that, anyway.
@futatorius Although your lyrics make sense, there is a pretty hard "g" sound after "gonna" that makes it unlikely that he was saying "end". It sounds almost like "I'm gonna get my despair". Not that Damo's mumbling English is reliable in any way.
I've listened to this song so many times but have never really looked into the lyrics. Given that "oh yeah" starts with atomic-bomb-like sound, I would imagine that the song is about a nuclear attack and/or maybe the aftermath: death, destruction, loss of culture. Damo Suzuki, the vocalist, was from Japan and was born into post-WWII Japan, shortly after the bombings. "I was born, and I was dead." Man this album is amazing, especially with this song leading into "oh yeah", with its backwards lyrics and cyclical beat.
PS the Jesus and Mary Chain do a tight cover of this on Barbed Wire Kisses
hmmm... i know this influenced the Flaming Lips track "Take Meta Mars"
other than that I think It's about a mushroom head?
Actually, I think the line is "I'm keep my distance". not "I'm gonna give my despair". I think this is just a by-ear transcript, so...
I dunno. Maybe he saw a guy who ate too many psilocybin mushrooms? Maybe HE ate too many psilocybin mushrooms? Maybe it's about a mushroom cloud? All three? Pretty muffled, weird. paranoid song. Truly awesome, though.
Nah, it's about being on the wrong end of a nuclear attack, as seen in the nuclear bomb dropped at the beginning of Oh Yeah, before it morphs into a thunderstorm...