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[Chorus]
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm
[Verse 1]
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road
[Verse 2]
Girl you gotta love your man
Girl you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man
[Chorus]
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
[Outro]
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm
[Verse 1]
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin' like a toad
Take a long holiday
Let your children play
If you give this man a ride
Sweet family will die
Killer on the road
[Verse 2]
Girl you gotta love your man
Girl you gotta love your man
Take him by the hand
Make him understand
The world on you depends
Our life will never end
Gotta love your man
[Chorus]
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Into this house we're born
Into this world we're thrown
Like a dog without a bone
An actor out on loan
[Outro]
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm
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@[Diderik:33655] "Your a holiday!" Was a popular term used in the 50s/60s to compliment someone on their all around. For example, not only are they beautiful, but they are fun and kind too ... just an all around "holiday".
I think your first comment is closer to being accurate. The singer/song writers state "Millions of eyes can see, yet why am i so blind!? When the someone else is me, its unkind its unkind". I believe hes referring to the girl toying with him and using him. He wants something deeper with her, thats why he allows himself to be as a puppet (even though for her fun and games) as long as it makes her happy. But he knows deep down that she doesnt really want to be serious with him and thats what makes him.
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Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell gives Adam Reader some heartfelt insight into Jane’s Addiction's hard rock manifesto "Mountain Song", which was the second single from their revolutionary album Nothing's Shocking. Mountain song was first recorded in 1986 and appeared on the soundtrack to the film Dudes starring Jon Cryer. The version on Nothing's Shocking was re-recorded in 1988.
"'Mountain Song' was actually about... I hate to say it but... drugs. Climbing this mountain and getting as high as you can, and then coming down that mountain," reveals Farrell. "What it feels to descend from the mountain top... not easy at all. The ascension is tough but exhilarating. Getting down is... it's a real bummer. Drugs is not for everybody obviously. For me, I wanted to experience the heights, and the lows come along with it."
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Same ideas expressed in Fitter, Happier are expressed in this song. We're told to strive for some sort of ideal life, which includes getting a good job, being kind to everyone, finding a partner, getting married, having a couple kids, living in a quiet neighborhood in a nice big house, etc. But in Fitter, Happier the narrator(?) realizes that it's incredibly robotic to live this life. People are being used by those in power "like a pig in a cage on antibiotics"--being pacified with things like new phones and cool gadgets and houses while being sucked dry. On No Surprises, the narrator is realizing how this life is killing him slowly. In the video, his helmet is slowly filling up with water, drowning him. But he's so complacent with it. This is a good summary of the song. This boring, "perfect" life foisted upon us by some higher powers (not spiritual, but political, economic, etc. politicians and businessmen, perhaps) is not the way to live. But there is seemingly no way out but death. He'd rather die peacefully right now than live in this cage. While our lives are often shielded, we're in our own protective bubbles, or protective helmets like the one Thom wears, if we look a little harder we can see all the corruption, lies, manipulation, etc. that is going on in the world, often run by huge yet nearly invisible organizations, corporations, and 'leaders'. It's a very hopeless song because it reflects real life.
This song is about being a small part of a largly chaotic universe.
They were thinking of ideas for songs, and they were listening to a song called "Ghost Riders In The Sky," a cowboy song by Stan Jones. And came up with this song.
Jim was working on a screenplay for a movie at this time, he used alot of parts from his screenplay in the lyrics. And the movie is about a hitchiker who kills people when they pick him up. Kinda like The Hitcher with Rutger Hauer.
Nice. The inspirations are more ordinary than I thought they was :)
Ahhhh! Y'know, there are two types of people on this site...<br /> Those who have no effing clue what they're talking about and just throwing hypothesis in all directions... And then there's you.<br /> Thank you
@Muzzy Then again, the screenplay can be interpreted itself.
This is one of the songs that got me into The Doors, because this is song is what life really is. We are thrown into this world on alone, we have our false hopes, dreams, and gods, we may have those around us, there are dangers and threats that can happen to anyone, and life is a storm that we are riding out.
@Warhart Thank you, finally some gets it. People are just throwing random hypotheses about tidbits of the song around here without even trying to grasp the bigger picture.
@Warhart I agree with your comment mostly. Only thing missing is “the killer in the road”
@Warhart I agree with your comment mostly. Only thing missing is “the killer in the road”
[Riders on the storm] Well, life is hell, impredictable.
[Into this house we're born, Into this world we're thrown Like a dog without a bone, An actor out alone] We are here, but why? Life is unfair, stupid, senseless.. we are just like a gods without a bone, beings without purpose. There's a killer on the road, His brain is squirmin' like a toad
[Gotta love your man, yeah, Wow!] We have to love, society tell us that. But if life makes no sense at all, why sould we care about it? Life is all about living the absurd.
I have doubts in the part of the serial killer. Maybe, as Jim is a clear nihilist, is a metaphore of death, the only thing that will happen for sure in our lives.
(just my point, to understand this song study some philosophy)
@Nirvanna It's "An actor out on loan," not "An actor out alone." It's a poetic reference to the old studio system, when actors were under contract to one of the major studios. Sometime, another studio wanted to use a certain actor for their movie, so they would negotiate with the studio which the actor worked for, to release him or her from the contract for that one film only. The studio who owned the actor's contract would be paid handsomely for the :oan" of the actor, based on what they figured they might lose in revenue, based on what his or her box office draw would have been, had he or she not been l"loaned out", but had instead starred in one of their pictures, instead of having to go with someone lower down on the totem pole.
OK here it is the real meaning of ROTS............... You are born, you live and you die. Morrison hated the randomness of life and saw death as the only certainty. Thus he empathises with psycho killers who are compeled to kill in there efforts to garner control and order in their lives. Morrison was obsessed with the Ida Lupino movie the Hitch-hiker about a sadistic pyscho who is picked up by two holidaying businessmen. Being the misogynist that he was it was up to women to help and comfort men as they rode the turbulant random storm of life.
I like Jim's ideas, except for his hate of randomness of life. One must suffer a lot in life or one must know what is death and what's after death to think like that.
Oops, replied to the wrong one.
I’ll just comment on the first verse now. My take is that although many people seem to adapt perfectly to this world system, other people are very sensitive, feeling more that after birth, they have been “thrown” rather than just “born” into this stormy world. Young children do SEE the disasters and injustices in the world around them. Many parents aren’t forthright with their children about the cold hard facts, but fluff over the true facts with “white lies,” thinking they are protecting their children. Most children accept the “fluff.” Many parents even teach their children that appearances are of upmost importance in order to be accepted by society. Inadvertently they teach their children to act, lie and pretend so they will be looked upon and be accepted by society, rather than teaching their children to just be their own genuine self. Some children see through the “big lie” and refuse to conform. When they don’t conform they are alienated from society and feel lost and alone, like “a dog without a bone and an actor out alone.” That is why many people accused Jim Morrison of being a rebel. He just refused to conform to the “big lie,” and remained true to himself. Tragically, it remains the same, even for parents who teach and encourage their children to be true to themselves. They too are often rejected by society. It’s very sad….something Shakespeare seemed to grasp so very well.
@shar1nie I agree. what do u make of the woman love your man lyrics
This evolved out of a jam session when the band was messing around with "Ghost Riders In The Sky," a cowboy song by Stan Jones.
Morrison practiced 'consciousness flow' which allowed him to mix and match whatever thoughts coursed through his mind that rhymed, in this song, it just happened to be women and Serial killers like manson. There is no 'hidden' meaning.
"You guys are so silly. To truly understand this song you have to take 5 hits of acid. Then and only then can you truly appreciate and understand what jim morrison is trying to say. Come on let your children play man."
really, an idiotic comment, show some responsibility towards those who might be reading this.
i can say after having spent many hours on acid as a youth, including a six week solid period on mushrooms after being given a bag of 5000 of wales' finest freshly picked (we somehow lost two weeks there), acid wont make any difference in your understanding of anything, but your normal thoughts will seem more relevant, what's needed to form understanding is simply intelligence.
which you will lose if you take acid as it causes malfunctions in the brain circuitry that can last forever, i still see visual traces due to my first ever acid tab, that was some 20 years ago when i was about 13.
dont do acid :\
that said, badly prescribed meds for my depression dropped my iq from 118 to 97 with just one pill (i got dumbed down), still recovering from that one 10 years later.
dont do prescribed meds from angry pre breakdown psychiatrists who cant argue with logic :\
Great comment! As far as drug residues and bad consequences on intelligence and all else, read clearbodyclearmind.com/ <br /> Read thoroughly
While the part about picking a killer up is mostly refering to a screenplay morrison was writing, the lines "into this world we're thrown etc." clearly are a product of the world-weariness morrison experienced.