Mountain Song (Song)
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Mountain Song is a Jane's Addiction song written by Eric Avery and Perry Farrell in late 1985.
Porno For Pyros covered this song and made it a staple of their set during much of the Good God's Urge tour.
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Lyrics
Comin' down the mountain One of many children Everybody has Their own opinion Everybody has Their own opinion Holding it back It hurts so bad Jumping out of my flesh And i said.... cash in! Cash in now honey Cash in now Cash in now baby Cash in now honey Cash in Miss Smith Cash in now baby! Oh, oh oh, oh oh oh I was comin' down the mountain Met a child she had pin eyes We had the same opinion Had the same opinion She was holding it back It hurts do bad Jumping out of her flesh And i said... You better cash in Cash in now honey Cash in now Cash in now baby Cash in now honey Cash in Miss Smith Cash in now baby! Oh, oh oh, oh oh...
Demo / Dudes version:
Comin' down the mountain One of many children Everybody has Their own opinion Everybody has Their own opinion Holding it back It hurts so bad I'm jumping out of my flesh And i said... Cash in! Cash in now honey Cash in now Cash in now baby Cash in now honey Cash in Miss Smith Cash in now baby! Yeah! I was comin' down the mountain Met a child she had dark eyes We had the same opinion Had the same opinion She was holding it back It hurts do bad She was jumping out of her flesh And i said... Cash in! Cash in now honey Cash in now Cash in now baby Cash in now honey Cash in Miss Smith Cash in now baby! Yeah! Ooh, oh oh oh yeah! Ooh, oh oh oh yeah! Ooh, oh oh oh yeah! Ooh, oh oh oh yeah!
Lyric Info
The lines at the start of the second verse of Had A Dad, Well I, spoke to the mountain, I listened to the sea, they both told me that the fountain, was the best that you could be, were originally lyrics intended for Mountain Song. While there are no known recordings of Mountain Song with these lyrics, they can be found at the end of the liner notes for the Kettle Whistle album.
Music Video
There are three official music videos for this song:
- The first and original version is the one created by Perry Farrell and Casey Niccoli. It features live footage of the band recorded at the August 19, 1988 Scream show at The Probe, in Los Angeles, CA. They band had a number of people in diapers in the crowd and on stage that can be spotted in the video. There are also shots of the band members kissing each other as well as footage of the Casey being covered in plaster molding for the sculpture that appears on the cover of the Nothing's Shocking album. It is this footage, and additional footage that shows both Perry and Casey nude, surrounded by flowers that got this video banned by MTV. This video, as the band intended it, can be seen in the Soul Kiss video and downloaded from iTunes.
- The second version of the video is a "clean" version of the band's video that was created to try and get airplay on MTV. It has black objects covering Casey's nipples and Perry and Casey's genitals during all scenes with nudity. While MTV initially refused to show even this censored version, it rescinded the ban and finally began airing the video around 1991, after the huge success off Been Caught Stealing.
- The third version of this video was, which seems to be the most popular version shown in Europe and Australia, is an alternate video the band did not create. Warner Brothers, unhappy with the creative direction and progress of the band's video, contracted an outside producer to create a video for this song. Like the original video, it also features some footage shot at The Probe in 1988, however that is where the similarities end. The video starts with a shot of a mountain and then jumps to a shot of Perry covering his ears. In a 1991 interview on MTV's 120 Minutes, Perry dismissed this version. A short clip of this version made an appearance in an episode of the MTV cartoon Beavis & Butthead.
Commercialization
Mountain Song was briefly used in a Coors beer commercial. Fan backlash due to the history of the Coors family and the Coors business lead Perry Farrell to have the commercial recalled.
