I Can't See Your Face In My Mind Lyrics
I can't see your face in my mind.
Carnival dogs
Consume the lines.
Can't see your face in my mind.
Baby, please don't cry.
And don't look at me
With your eyes.
I can't seem to find the right lie.
Insanity's horse
Adorns the sky.
Can't seem to find the right lie.
Consume the lines.
Can't see your face in my mind.
Baby, please don't cry.
I won't need your picture
Until we say goodbye.
I agree with you guys he is leaving his girlfriend but i think it means he doesnt want to see her cry, because it breaks his heart and thats why he cant see her face in his mind because he knows he will see her crying and he cant stand it, and thats why he says he wont need her picure until they say goodbye because when they say goodbye she will be crying but she wont be crying in her picture.
I guess it's about a guy leaving is girlfriend and saying don't cry, it's over. I Can't See your face in my mind might means he doesn't love her anymore, because he can't remember her.
just a couple of observations: when it says "carnival dogs consume the lines", my guess is the lines referred to are the lines of her face. and her face being composed of lines might suggest like a hand-drawn image. seems like a really pained and hostile song.
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.
@Milquetoast - See my reply to sawfish666 above for my interpretation of this. I saw quite a few carnival dogs and spinning Aztec calendar stones back in the day ;)
@Milquetoast - See my reply to sawfish666 above for my interpretation of this. I saw quite a few carnival dogs and spinning Aztec calendar stones back in the day ;)
The line, as they show it here:
"Carnival dogs consume the lines."
make no sense in any interpretation I can come up with, even nonsensical, and so I begin to wonder if the lyric is actually something else.
I mean, what are we to make of it? There are dogs at a carnival and they eat the people standing in line for the farris wheel and the roller coaster? The Doors lyrics are seldom that, well, sloppy... This would be as self-referential as James Joyce. They rend to reference classical tropes and use images that often relate to that. The way it is, no one could possibly interpret the song, and they did not seem to try for this level of obscurity.
They are not typically like John Lennon, who, if the apocryphal story is true, upon finishing "I am the Walrus", said:
"There. Let the fuckers figure this one out..."
@sawfish666 - I believe this lyric describes being under the influence of psychedelic drugs e,g, LSD. In this state one can generate an image in ones mind while other mental images involuntarily emerge and encroach upon the original image and morph or obliterate it. In this case Jim's tripping like crazy, thinking of the girl he's breaking up with and having the image of her face he's holding in his mind start to dissolve around the edges due to the secondary images encroaching on it. The encroaching images first look like carnival dogs (little dogs with pointy hats?) but...
@sawfish666 - I believe this lyric describes being under the influence of psychedelic drugs e,g, LSD. In this state one can generate an image in ones mind while other mental images involuntarily emerge and encroach upon the original image and morph or obliterate it. In this case Jim's tripping like crazy, thinking of the girl he's breaking up with and having the image of her face he's holding in his mind start to dissolve around the edges due to the secondary images encroaching on it. The encroaching images first look like carnival dogs (little dogs with pointy hats?) but probably morph into something else very shortly thereafter, like spinning Aztec calendar stones. Ah, the late 1960's.. ya kinda had to be there. Cheers.
Wow. I didn't even notice...
"Insanity's horse adorns the sky..." ???
???
Really, I think we need a better transcription of the lyrics here. I don't think this is right. It is questionable at the very least.
@sawfish666 - It's absolutely right. This is Jim Morrison we're talking about.
@sawfish666 - It's absolutely right. This is Jim Morrison we're talking about.