| The Doors – Indian Summer Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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“Indian Summer” The song is an out take recorded in 1966 wrote in 65, added to the 1970 release Morrison Hotel. (sometimes referred to as Hard Rock Cafe from the title of the first side of the LP, whose second side is titled Morrison Hotel) In Indian summer, 4 th song on side 2, the melody mixed with the tone of Jims hypnotic voice is mystical. The simplistic metaphoric lyrics leaves room for ones own interpretation. I’m glade he left us with a personal gift unique to each person, as far as I know he never explained the lyrics. A popular belief is this piece was inspired as was “Dawn's Highway”, Peace Frog" and "Ghost Song" by a car accident in the desert when Jim Morrison was four years old, and his family was on the way to New Mexico. A family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed. Morrison was quoted as saying: "The souls of the ghosts of those dead Indians... were just running around freaking out, and just leaped into my soul. And they're still in there." This scene is portrayed at the beginning of Oliver Stone's movie The Doors. Morrison believed the incident to be the most formative event in his life and made repeated references to it in the imagery in his songs, poems, and interviews. My interpretation is simplistic like the lyrics, I believe when Jim sings “That I meet in the summer. Indian Summer.” He’s simply referring to southern California and the spiritual feeling he got from the desert and it gifts, for example “peyote”. I don’t discount his Love for Pam, for sure “Queen of the highway” was more a ballad about Pam, it’s the 3 rd song on side 2 “Morrison Hotel”… Jim (The Lizard King) Morrison is gone, but certainly not forgotten. Nearly 40 tears have passed and his music is still completely relevant. |
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