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."
She has come from the shadows of the dream world
A dark angel from the darker side of love
Across a sea of tears
A hundred thousand years
Come with her and dance in the moon light
And you are lost to this world evermore
Put your hand in her hand
Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the phoenix
Your the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!
Come and drown in the lake of her passion
Come and die so you can be reborn
Hear the siren sing
Hear the death knell ring
She's a witch a siren and a vampyre
She has come from the distance stars
To take your heart
To break your heart
Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the phoenix
Your the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!
Come and kiss, kiss the lips of Lilith
Come and kiss and you will be no more
Feel the fire
Of desire
Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the phoenix
Your the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!
Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the phoenix
Your the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!
A dark angel from the darker side of love
Across a sea of tears
A hundred thousand years
Come with her and dance in the moon light
And you are lost to this world evermore
Put your hand in her hand
Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the phoenix
Your the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!
Come and drown in the lake of her passion
Come and die so you can be reborn
Hear the siren sing
Hear the death knell ring
She's a witch a siren and a vampyre
She has come from the distance stars
To take your heart
To break your heart
Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the phoenix
Your the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!
Come and kiss, kiss the lips of Lilith
Come and kiss and you will be no more
Feel the fire
Of desire
Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the phoenix
Your the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!
Come and fly now with the angels
Rise again now like the phoenix
Your the love that lives forever
In the heart that never dies, never dies
Heart of Lilith!
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This song was originally written by a guy called Peter Gutteridge. He was one of the founders of the "Dunedin Sound" a musical scene in the south of New Zealand in the early 80s. From there it was covered by "The Clean" one of the early bands of that scene (he had originally been a member of in it's early days, writing a couple of their best early songs). The Dunedin sound, and the Clean became popular on american college radio in the mid to late 80s. I guess Yo La Tengo heard that version.
Great version of a great song,
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Lilith was a vampire who fed herself with the semen of men and making them crazy to fornicate with her causing all kind of mental diseases through desire; Lilith is one of the main devils of modern times; if the Singer of this group is Lilith I totally understand men's desire; great tune and rhythm, just magical and haunted! See the picture: Lilith (1892), John Collier.
I love this song. It's the perfect song for my one friend.
One of my favorite Inkubus Sukkubus songs.
iahve never really understood this song but its a good song to listen to i know who lilith is but still dont uinderstand the song
Lillith is the first wife of Adam in folklore of I'm not sure where goes to check...Okay, supposedly on the sixth day God made male and female of everything except humans..Adam was left there to name everything and saw all the couples of animals and felt jealous (typical male) then God created Lillith, except that she wasn't as pure as Adam was. Lillith was annoyed when she was always on the "bottom" ;) and she left him....And then Lillith was punished by God but made a compromise with some angels. If she ever wanted to kill a human child and saw the angels names or amulets above it she would spare their life. God punished her by killing 100 of her demon children daily. Whenever she couldn't kill a human child she killed her own....God then went to Adam and wanted to help him, he tried again and made the First Eve, Adam ended up being completely hating her.
Lillith in the end escaped Death, hence "the heart that never dies" Great song with an amazing story.
You can read more about this at: webcom.com/~gnosis/lillith.html
This is my favorite song, it was the first thing i heard for inkubus sukkubus, and i will forever love it. Everytime i hear it it takes me somewhere else.
The perfect ode to Lilith, the greatest inspiration to womankind.