L.A. Woman Lyrics
About an hour ago.
Took a look around,
See which way the wind blow.
Where the little girls
In their Hollywood bungalows.
In The City of Light.
Or just another lost angel.
City of Night.
City of Night.
City of Night.
City of Night.
Woo, come on!
L.A. Woman, Sunday afternoon.
L.A. Woman, Sunday afternoon.
L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon
Drive through your suburbs
Into your blues.
Into your blues, yeah.
Into your blue-blue, blues.
Into your blues, ohh, yeah.
Hills are filled with fire.
If they say I never loved you,
You know they are a liar.
Driving down your freeways.
Midnight alleys roam.
Cops in cars,
The topless bars.
Never saw a woman,
So alone, so alone, yeah.
So alone, so alone.
Change the mood from glad to sadness
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Got to keep on risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mojo Risin',
Got the Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin',
Gotta keep on risin'
Ridin', ridin'.
Come on ride in, ride in.
I'm gonna ride in, ride in.
I gotta ride in, ride in.
Well, ride in, ride in.
I gotta, woo, yeah, ride
Whoa, ohh yeah.
Town about an hour ago.
Took a look around,
See which way the wind blow.
Where the little girls
In their Hollywood bungalows.
In the City of Light
Or just another lost angel.
City of Night.
City of Night.
City of Night.
City of Night, whoa, come on.
L.A. Woman, you're my woman.
Oh yeah, L.A. Woman.
Yeah, L.A. Woman.
L.A., L.A. Woman, Woman.
Desert woman, come on
Mr. Mojo Risin is Morrison's name scrambled up.
Also known as an Anagram: Jim Morrison = Mr Mojo Risin
Also known as an Anagram: Jim Morrison = Mr Mojo Risin
I think this is Jim's tribute to L.A. (obvious maybe) but this is my favorite Doors song by far. The end where he repeats the beginnning lyrics just makes me so happy because the way they play just sounds so much more peppy. I don't know but I love it.
All of you are saddly wrong Jim was born in Florida not L.A. Its about Jim traveling to L.A. and he meets Pam (his love) He isn't 100% sure if she is the way she seems to him, loving and thinks the same way that he does. He isnt sure if she is just another slutty chick from L.A. or a real women "Are you a lucky little lady In the City of Light Or just another lost angel. City of Night." too some it up Jim wrote this song about Pamela and when he was trying to figure out if she was a real lady or just another L.A.women, and throughout the rest of the song he is not describing pamela but all the hookers and how he doesnt want another one of them
OK, I'll admit that I like this song disproportionately because I lived in LA when I was young, in my 20s and 30s...
That said, besides being tremendously evocative (in my experience, there is no place I've been like LA, if you are young and looking for romantic encounters). It was (and I hope it still is) a city for lovers, overlain by a certain decadence that only serves to spice up the whole mix.
It seemed like any exciting thing could happen...I have little doubt that Morrison saw it this way, too, based on his writing. I can see the young woman, in 20th Century Fox, walking past the boutiques on a sunny day on Rodeo Drive...
(For a really good idea of what it felt like to live there in the 70s/80s, Steely Dan's "Gaucho", and other of their albums of the period hit it pretty good, too. Aja really speaks to the West Hollywood/Beverly Hills/Westwood/Brentwood axis, for sure... )
I think that someone mentioned the paring of "city at night" and "city of light". The "City of Light" could well be a reference to Paris, known for a long time as "The City of Light". I realize that he moved there sometime in 70 or 71. I'm not sure how this aligns with the time the song was written and recorded. I think this could bear more analysis.
i hate to say this (i dont really), but IMJM4371 is totally and utterly wrong in his interpretation of the song. it is, in morrison's own crazy way, a tribute to the city he loved, but not quite what you would think of it. its talking of a city with two sides, one shining bright as the sun and the other as dark and corrupt as gotham city minus the batman. although this was morrison's favorite city, the song implies that he stayed there a little too long.
this song is amazing.
MR. MOJO RISIN'!!!!!!!!! keep on risin'!!!
This song should have like 12 pages of posts. Just goes to show the lack of respect for the classics.
I think some 1 named no 1 almost three years ago was the closest to the real meaning of these song but still just a little off. It is about hookers but the hooker is not killing anyone its the customer who kills the hooker. Motel, Money ,Murder, Madness. come on now its about a hooker who takes a guy(the guy that just got into town about an hour ago and where the little girls in their hollywood bongalows are you a lucky little lady in the city of light, will i let her live? or just another lost angel, city at night, or will he kill her.) The main character, whether Jim meant to imply himself as this man or just a random guy but whoever it is, is a serial hooker killer.
in this song jim just whrite for the la like woman.beautiful bad sad city.full of badthinks-murder madness and here come the poet who find some beautiful things.he do that la=beutiful bad sinnwst women,and jim is in love with her/it.great staff.briliant poem.i can understand that.i can feel that.my girl friend is so beautiful and sucha bitch and the same time.love it to die in her hands))