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| The Doors – Gloria Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This version is listed as "live" but it sounds flawless from beginning to end. |
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| The Doors – Touch Me Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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"Stronger than dirt" was added because the boys, unbeknownst to Jim, had already gone ahead with a Buick campaign using "Light My Fire" as the song for their ad -
"Come on, Buick, light my fire".
The ad was filmed and may have been shown in Florida a few times but when Jim found out about it he hit the roof, and called up Buick himself, stating over the phone that if they went ahead with the campaign he would get a buick and beat the crap out it with a sledgehammer on national television! |
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| The Doors – The End Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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In her only interview Mary Werbelow says the Blue bus was about her experience with Jim too, but doesn't want to interfere with people's various interpretations of this song or any other, and refuses to talk of Morrison anymore - the man whom she denied a second chance. |
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| The Doors – The End Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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In the infamous Florida performance where he allegedly revealed himself, Morrison had just berated the crowd and was barely getting through "The End" when he went into a mantra of lyrics that were revealing:
".. Away, away, away, away, in India
Away, away, away, away in In-di-a .."
This is where Mary Werbelow moved to avoid contact with Jim, and study meditation.
The first lines are linked to Mary Werbelow according to Ray.
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| The Doors – The Crystal Ship Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The Crystal Ship is platform "Holly", an oil rig off California at Santa Barbara, and to someone on LSD it would look quite beautiful at only two miles offshore. |
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| The Doors – Riders On The Storm Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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This was the last thing Jim did with The Doors, his voice recorded twice, one track being sung as whispers, and the whispers at the end were Jim, according to Ray, being the last thing before heading off to join Pam in Paris. L. A. Woman reached Gold just about the time Jim died. But Jim had two events that hung with him outside the band: One was the event as a child of happening upon an auto accident as a child in New Mexico, I think, that involved two vehicles carrying Indian workers. This image stayed with him and he sometimes sings about it in his work. The other theme was for a movie he wanted bankrolled involving a mass murderer working the interstate highways, a part he played in a short film he made called "HWY". This is what he's referring to in this song. He also calls out to Pamela to "love your man", and that his whole world depends on her, according to Ray. By the way, Ray was never better, and Ray stars in this song emulating rain with his keywork, the rain and thunder effects in the background are actual. Jim made light of the effects in the studio, mouthing the thunder himself and saying they should "send out to Arizona for some good thunder". He also sings the theme song for Albuquerque station KOB's popular TV program, The Dick Bills Show, a show Jim watched as a kid that also starred Glen Campbell.:
"Ridin' down the trail to Albuquerque
saddle bags all filled with beans and jerky
heading for K circle B
the TV ranch for you and me
K circle B in Albuquerque" |
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| The Doors – People Are Strange Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Everyone seemed to live in Laurel Canyon at the time. Mama Cass, David Crosby and Frank Zappa .... Jim was living with John at Robby's home at 8826 Lookout Mountain Ave, a canyon street that branches off of Laurel Canyon, in 1966. Depressed, he went for a walk and came back with the lyrics. Lookout Mountain is the more haunted of the streets in a very haunted area, the location of the Phantom Carriage. Who knows what he saw. |
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| The Doors – Love Her Madly Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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"7 horses seem to be on the mark." Get set. Go? Does it mean that Krieger is almost at his breaking point? Almost ready to break out of the relationship? And 7 horses? Is it mystical? Having to do with Eastern religion? |
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| The Doors – Moonlight Drive Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I have to say that this is one of the times when the other members of the band upstage Jim. Krieger's "beer bottle guitar" really makes this song! The Doors is not just Jim, and a concert he didn't make in Amsterdam, I believe, pointed that out to him. |
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| The Doors – Moonlight Drive Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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The "Lizard King" stuff was, as Pamela said, interrupting an interview with Jim, never supposed to be taken literally. It was just theater, and Jim agreed. But when ego is taken into account, you have to invest in it, even when deep down you truly believe you are no more special than anyone else. Jim's charisma makes him the ultimate Front Man of any band - outlandish, great looking, self destructive and even spiteful of his audience in later years.. "Moonlight Drive" was the first song sung to Ray on the beach at Venice. Ray says that Jim sang the first two lines and that was it for him, although he sang a few other songs too. The imagery in some of Jim's stuff is really "out there", and different to what the other bands were up to at the time. Jim was a rock God who really wanted to be a beat poet. Usually it's the other way around. Ray says that Jim had transformed into something "gorgeous" from his UCLA days - living on the roof and eating beans, but mostly LSD. This was responsible for his physique at the time, and Ray could imagine something big. I heard that this song is about drowning or suicide by drowning. I heard the same about "Wishful, Sinful" also. Falling through wet forests (seaweed), drowning ... |
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| The Doors – Love Street Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Pam is the woman who "knew him when". Before he was much of anything, and was very supportive of his poetry. |
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| The Doors – Love Street Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Love Street does refer to Rothdell Trail, an offshoot of Laurel Canyon that has apartments situated behind the Canyon Country Store, the store where the "creatures meet". The line "She has robes and she has monkeys", probably is "read" as "She has robes and she has monkeys (who are) lazy diamond studded flunkees, meaning that Pamela was probably hanging with very greasy types that Jim did not appreciate her hanging with, heroin being Pam's drug of choice. Pam was a very strong headed individual, which either attracted Jim or trapped him. Either way, she was it for him, though they both screwed around somewhat. And there is sarcasm in this song, in the way that Jim says he likes it "so far". This was probably their relationship. "Summer Sunday and a year" confuses me though. |
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| The Doors – Love Me Two Times Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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If you ask Jim what he thought about this song, he may have a different answer every time. If you ask Krieger, it's probably about sex for someone about to go away, needing it more to tide him over until they meet again. Who knows. We'll need more research on the "back door" stuff though. |
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| The Doors – Love Her Madly Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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Don't you love her madly? Want to be her Daddy? (Her world) Don't you love her even as she's walking out on you? Like she has done over and over? Not simply an "ass" reference, I believe. But this was apparently Krieger's relationship. Also, I'm loving Manzarek's organ here ..................................... what?
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| The Doors – Light My Fire Lyrics
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The Doors, and especially Jim, are intriguing BECAUSE they are dark. Interestingly, in the Summer of Love, the defining sound was from this dark, sullen group. When The Beatles were singing about "All you need is love", there's Jim calling on you to "Light his fire"! And death is always intriguing for others just as it intrigued Jim. It's the last horizon, the great unknown that will be known to us all. The first part written by Robby and the second part by Jim, and Robby says "Why is it always death with you?" And Jim goes "No, this will be perfect". The lyrics turning full circle. If you can't have true passion, then at least you can have a funeral pyre. "Fire" being the main goal here, no matter what form it takes. |
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| The Doors – L.A. Woman Lyrics
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Jim is singing about L.A. women. The people and the city. While not exactly the woman that Sinatra sang about in "L.A. is My Lady", Morrison takes into account the variety of fortunes made and lost in this glamorous realm, where dreams are sought by all and almost no one realizes them. Los Angeles is a city with standing, but problems that aren't unique to other places are only blown out of proportion here. The hills burn almost every Summer, fed by the storied winds that upset the environment as well as the human psyche. The cops in cars, the topless bars, the little girls in Hollywood bungalows, all bringing to mind that Los Angeles is alone and pretty much on its own as no one - jealously - will ever help it out! All just a year after the Manson events that literally had the entire city on edge during a heat wave. Morrison loves it, as he states "The West is the best", and counts himself a "citizen" of the city, but the band isn't even impressed with the big venues anymore, the guys have other interests to pursue and Paris is beckoning. |
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| The Doors – I Can't See Your Face In My Mind Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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A truly beautiful song. "Carnival dogs" is what throws everyone off, erasing lines that define a face, a description, an identity. Carnival dogs may just be the distractions in life, or interest over time. Maybe Jim as the singer is saying that it's been a while since their good chemistry, and it's worn off? Carnival dogs may be his way of describing the gremlins in his mind losing memory of her, destroying the lines that make up her face. |
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| The Doors – Hello, I Love You Lyrics
| 10 years ago
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I remember my cousin Lisa playing this when I was about 9?
It's about a Black woman who may have been a Naomi Campbell type, except maybe younger, prettier ... and less violent. She's oblivious to anyone else's "eyes" because she, as a stunner does, avoids eye contact. The sidewalk crouches like a dog at her feet as she effortlessly strides over it, using it to make her way past Morrison, who watches and mentally takes notes on this Venice afternoon. It may have been an overcast day at that, but it doesn't matter. This "dusky jewel" had it all. |
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| The Doors – Break on Through (To the Other Side) Lyrics
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Jim was quite the character, obsessed with death as he was for reasons simply of seeking out the truth, but as I read this it can be about many types of transitions, regarding drug use to escape the monotony of daily life, the boredom of having already done it all or committing suicide. Daily life, nothing left to live for, relationships that don't pan out or whatever. With Jim it was always about the other side. He and Pam used to scare each other by overdosing - their "recreational" activity. Jim would creep around the outside of their home behind the Country Store in Laurel Canyon ( Where the creatures meet in "Love Street" ) just to scare her! A couple made for each other! |
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