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| The Doors – The End Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Without all the stuff in the middle this was an awesome breakup song. Morrison got dumped by a girl when he moved to CA and I think that inspired him to come out of his shell and write the great songs on the first album. Even then he was too shy to sing them at first but thankfully he eventually did. Almost 40 years later I still can't believe what he said about his mother in front of crowds of strangers. If I saw that even today I'd be shocked and probably wouldn't believe my ears. He had major problems in his noggin. |
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| The Doors – The Soft Parade Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I think he's commenting on people's views of the American Dream and not so much the American Dream itself. What exactly he's saying I'm not sure. |
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| The Doors – Hello, I Love You Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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It's fitting they ripped this beat because they're definitely mocking something in this song. They're figuratively describing an evil presence and the speaker's reaction to it is not one Morrison would advocate. Why they chose the Kinks I dunno. |
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| The Beatles – Strawberry Fields Forever Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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I get a kick out of people who defend the Beatles against those who say they were on drugs. What's wrong with musicians being on drugs anyways? It's standard practice in my opinion, and I don't even do drugs or support others' doing them. Next time someone says your favorite band was on drugs when they wrote a particular song you should take it as a compliment. If they wrote something great inbetween trying to find another heroin hit more power to them because that would take real talent. Probably the Beatles' greatest gift, besides musically--not lyrically so much compared to Dylan and Morrison--was their ability to appeal to prudish everyday happy-go-lucky people like I've seen posting here. Not everyone: there are some great comments from some people but others here really have poles up their u no what's and it amazes me they are aware enough to listen to great music when they should be listening to teeny-bop. Somehow the Beatles crossed that barrier and they are special because of that. |
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| The Doors – The Spy Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Ever watch Morrison perform on the Ed Sullivan Show? He was a "spy" of sorts and you can tell if you watch closely. He was a crazy bastard and knew nothing about music. Watching him pretend to be a musician and sing for all those families at home is one of the most bizarre things you'll ever see on TV. It still amazes me it ever happened. How a person as crazy, disfunctional, and untrained as him ever became famous the way he did still amazes me. |
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| The Doors – Touch Me Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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All of you need to go back to watching Jack Black movies and stop posting on this forum. This song is mediocre for this band especially lyrically. Please go somewhere else. |
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| Bob Dylan – Tombstone Blues Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"The sweet pretty things are in bed now of course" has some meanings: They're too pretty to be out late at night because they'll get harassed by the opposite sex or they're so pretty they're inside having sex. Or I guess it could be a parent talking about they're kids being asleep. I just like that line because it starts the song in an open-ended way. The rest of the song expands on that open-endedness. |
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| The Doors – Hello, I Love You Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Morrison did not advocate blindly following anything, no matter what it was. He believed in "play" rather than the "game" because games have rules which he did not like. When he says "let me jump in your game" he is mocking people who do that. This song is sarcastic. |
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| The Doors – When The Music's Over Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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"music is your special friend": Music is the only art that gets inside of you and violates you. A book you can put down, a painting you can look away from, etc, but music forces you to participate. There is something hilarious about the timing in this song. This is a great one, but Morrison did not mean it to be serious. |
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| The Doors – Twentieth Century Fox Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Also about the television/movie industry as a "fox". It had a subtle way of influencing just about every aspect of people's lives last century. For the tv: "got the world/locked up/inside a plastic box." |
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| The Doors – Soul Kitchen Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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Two of the most brilliant lines ever written: "The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes/Street lights share their hollow glow." They seem simple but if you look closely they're brilliant because there's no subject, no object, no verb, no point of reference, no meaning, nothing really when you boil it down. VERY difficult to do. It's not clear if the speaker is famous and inside the car trying to get through a crowd of fans trying to look inside or if he's an outcast on the street and people are slowing down to look at him. The "hollow glow" could refer to the appearance of the "eyes" or the "cars" or the "street lights". "Share" could be a way of comparing the three or it could actively describe the "lights" providing light. Or "share" could be the beginning of the command to the reader, "share their hollow glow" which is a sentence. "Street lights" is another sentence with the direct object assumed. "The cars crawl" is a sentence. "The cars crawl past" is another sentence. "The cars crawl past all" is another. If you read them aloud without the limits of letters etc, you get: "The cars' crawl passed" is a sentence, "The cars' crawl passed all" is another. Also, the words "clock", "time", and "now" at the beginning of the song and "learn to forget" at the end remind you of a third meaning of the word "past" which you can remember to add in. These are just a few examples but the possibilities are endless. The song as a whole can be interpretted a million ways but lots of songs/poems are like that. It's difficult to break down the rules of syntax/structure/punctuation/etc while singing a famous/popular song but he was smart enough to do it somehow. What's really amazing about him is he did all of this knowing next to nothing about music. |
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| The Doors – The Crystal Ship Lyrics
| 21 years ago
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This poem has two speakers if you divide every 4 lines into different voices: "we'll meet again" is answered by "oh tell me where". I don't know if he's talking to himself or what but it's interesting. The lines "oh tell me where your freedom lies/the streets are fields that never die" are great. |
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