Thoughts on “Jane’s Addiction,” the late 80s and 90s rock band. I am listening to their album “Nothing Shocking” right now and saw them in concert a few years ago. The lead singer/writer Perry Farrell is interesting to me. My understanding is he is actually a conservative Jew despite his brutal lyrics. He is 61 now.
They are best known for the song “Jane Says,” which is interesting because it seems to be about a man imagining the feelings of a physically beautiful woman who senses men only want her because she is visually attractive. I think the best known line from the song is: “‘I only know they want me.'”
“She bid me take life easy,/As the grass grows on the weirs;/But I was young and foolish,/And now am full of tears.” — W.B. Yeats.