Graveyard Poem Lyrics
Although I still had not found a wife
I had my friends
Right there beside me.
We were close together.
We tripped the wall and we scaled the graveyard
Ancient shapes were all around us.
The wet dew felt fresh beside the fog.
Two made love in an ancient spot
One chased a rabbit into the dark
A girl got drunk and balled the dead
And I gave empty sermons to my head.
Cemetary, cool and quiet
Hate to leave your sacred lay
Dread the milky coming of the day.
its obviously a poem written during or after hanging out with friends at a cemetary...jim had an awsome gift of taking a normal setting and making a beautiful thing out of it....
Jim Morrison is probably one of the best poets ive ever read.
yes i agree Gypsyrose!!! There is a genius version where the doors play this half way through light my fire!!!
@Soybn four years late, but unfortunately that version you speak of is really not a real concert version. When Jim recited this poem was in Live In Boston without any instrumentals in the background, the light my fire you speak of was a track that was edited with different parts of live versions to make an epic track of light my fire. Which indeed was no doubt perfected. Unfortunately it never happened.
@Soybn four years late, but unfortunately that version you speak of is really not a real concert version. When Jim recited this poem was in Live In Boston without any instrumentals in the background, the light my fire you speak of was a track that was edited with different parts of live versions to make an epic track of light my fire. Which indeed was no doubt perfected. Unfortunately it never happened.