![]() The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. ![]() 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. Obviously the first part is sex, but the last line I guess I would think it means that she doesn't want him to leave and he is leaving and knows that he should but they are still kind of clinging to stay with her. "Once a time put a tongue in your ear on the beach and you clutched clinging heels." - I'm most curious about this line. ![]() Saying she will be with the other man in the night and only be with him until the early morning when he is making coffee and she'll leave to sneak back in to his house like nothing happened. ![]() "Only hold 'til your coffee warms, but don't hurry and speed." - This is mostly where I see more of the cheating aspect in the previous lines. I'd like not to hear keys." - This could mean that he subconsciously knows that she is cheating, so he doesn't want to hear the keys to confirm it or remind him of it as she leaves. "When you're out tell you're lucky one to know that you'll leave" - Maybe the lucky one is who she is cheating on him with and he has to know that she'll leave because she is going back to him or the simple fact that she is currently cheating and this would be a habit. I could see the cheating theme, so then I would take that to mean something a little different. One a time put a tongue in your ear in the beach Only hold till your coffee warms, īut don't hurry and speed. Tell your lucky one to know that you'll leave. i feel like every other line is angry and bitter (his anger coming out), and the ones in between are regretful (his sadness and undying love for her) and he's so angry at her - but still loves her, so he's really bitter about it. I’m glad you like it.I think its about his woman leaving him. It was just that idea, really, and it’s definitely one of my favorite songs of them all, too. But the I thought that what’s even more potent, in a way, is this idea that he’s having a heart attack and he doesn’t even realize that he’s dying. Actually, when I started writing the song, it was about a man who’d been shot and he was lying in a Layby. I just thought it was a really beautiful image. That incredibly potent sense of regret for not resolving this argument or row or whatever it was. It’s all about a guy basically dying in a layby and thinking about the way he’s left home the day before, the night before, the week before, or whenever. I think it’s terribly sad human quality, and “Heartattack In A Layby" is about regret. Regret for not following your instincts and married the right person when you had the chance. Regret for not having said what you should’ve said at the time or done what you should’ve done. " I think that for me, one of the things that’s always been the most heartbreaking about the human condition is the idea of regret. Quoting the frontman Steven Wilson from an interview about this track: ![]() Try Porcupine Tree's Heartattack In A Layby, I can barely listen to it these days haha ![]()
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