Peace Frog

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Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger came up with the guitar riff. The lyrics were based on 2 of Jim Morrison's poems, one called "Abortion Stories," which is where the bloody images came from. This was written in the studio. After Krieger got the guitar riff, they went through Morrison's notebooks and found the poems to create the lyrics. The first lines they got were "She came, she came, she came, just about the break of day." The lyrics about the Indians refer to an auto accident involving a group of Indians that Morrison's family came across on the highway. Morrison, who was a child at the time, felt that the ghosts of the Indians took up residence in his soul. This scene is portrayed at the beginning of Oliver Stone's movie, The Doors. The lyric "Blood in the streets of the town of Chicago" refers to the 1968 democratic convention. The lyric "Blood in the streets of the town of New Haven" refers to Morrison's arrest in New Haven in 1967. Police were called when Morrison was seen getting intimate with a young girl before the show. An officer confronted Morrison, who was arrested on stage after he exposed himself and went on a rant against the police. This Songfact is a Visual. Krieger recorded a version with Smashmouth for the 2000 Doors tribute album Stoned Immaculate. Radio stations usually play this together with "Blue Sunday," which follows it on the album.

This is about when Jim Morrisson ran over a frog with his lawnmower, and all he could see for day after were rainbows made of blood.

this song kicks ass

Can't believe nobody said anything about this song before... I think it's about an experience Jim had when he was a kid where he saw a crash and there were mexicans or something bleeding and dying on the street. Great song though.

I like this song and I have been a Doors fan since I was in high school. It's pretty morbid when you think about it but the symbolism surely shows. I think it's a response to all the violence and death and turmoil that hit during the 60's. The Doors were at their height at the time and certain events along that way. Peace Frog is almost like a page from the band's collective diary. It's a classic and it shall always be remembered as such.

Odd historical correlation: this song was being played by a lot of US troops when the invasion of Cambodia happened in 1970. The Pol Pot regime, which took power in 1975, adopted the following as their anthem:

The red, red blood splatters the cities and plains of the Cambodian fatherland, The sublime blood of the workers and peasants, The blood of revolutionary combatants of both sexes, The bloods spills out into great indignation and a resolute urge to fight, 17 April, that day under the revolutionary flag, The blood certainly liberates us from slavery.

nope. you are wrong. it was new haven when he was arrested for "public indecency". Dont question me again. Im right, you are wrong, enough said

He got arrested in New Haven for starting a riot. I know because my mom lived there when it happened.

I won't go into how evocative the lyrics are, all the allusions and allegory, as well as the reflection on the violence in the U.S. and the violence it was involved in (instigating) elsewhere in the world, etc., etc. I'll just say that this song is frickin' brilliant. Morrison's lyrics are evocative and Krieger's guitar riff is minimalist genius- his solo after the second chorus, leading into the spoken-word bridge, isn't bad either- and the silence at the end of the spoken-word section, just before the song resumes, is terrific, tension-building. This is one of my three or four favorite rock songs of all time.

i think Jim would roll over in his bathtub if he knew about the cheesy "Peace Frog" line of clothing that's out there now.