What is happening and how have you been
Gotta go but I'll see you again
And oh, the music is so loud
And then I fade into the

Crowds of people standing everywhere
'Cross the street I'm at this laugh affair
And here they always play my songs
And me, I wonder if it's

Wrong or right they come here just the same
Telling everyone about their games
And if you think it obsolete
Then you go back across the street
Yeah, street, hey hey

When I leave now don't you weep for me
I'll be back, just save a seat for me
But if you just can't make the room
Look up and see me on the

Moon's a common scene around my town
Here where everyone is painted brown
And if we feel that's not the way
Let's go paint everybody gray
Yeah, gray, yeah


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    maybe this is a song about the Doors and Arthur Lee/Love's disillusionment about their own place in the LA. music scene in comparison? Seems as if the narrator was at a Door's concert and during 'Hello, I Love You', decided it's a rip-off of a Kinks song and kind of retro (obsolete) and decides their time is better spent across the street. Considering the public are choosing the Doors over Love now, and Arthur is no more than a face in the crowd, in the last verses he vows he'll either be back or transcendent of his human form, and if rascism is to blame for Love's fading star, he'll transcend that too

    [Edit: i misspelled a word]
    zqsomethingon August 29, 2023   Link

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