I'd like to meet:
Jim
Morrison
Born December 8, 1943
Melbourne, Florida
Died July 3, 1971
Paris, France
Some Favorite Doors Lyrics
S "When you're strange...faces come out of the rain...when your're strange....no one remembers your name....when you're strange...when you're strange...when youuuu're strrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaange" S
I "Five to one, baby, one in five, No one here gets out alive, Now you get yours, baby, I'll get mine, Gonna make it, baby, it we try The old get old and the young get stronger, May take a week and it may take longer, They got the duns but we got the numbers Gonna win, yeh, we're takin' over, come on Your ballroom days are over, baby, Night is drawing near, Shadows of the evening grow across the year You walk across the floor with a flower in your hand, Trying to tell me no one understands, Trading your house for a handful of dimes Gonna make it, baby, in our prime Get together one more time Get together one more time" I
P "You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day; Tried to run. Tried to hide Break on thru to the other side, break on thru We chased our pleasures here, Dug our treasures there Can you still recall the time we cried? Break on thru to the other side, break on thru I found an island in your arms, A country in your eyes, Arms that chain, eyes that lie Break on thru ...etc. Made the scene from week to week, Day to day, hour to hour, The gate is straight, deep and wide Break on thru ...etc. Break. Break. Break. Break" P
Y "Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss, Another flashing chance at bliss, Another kiss, another kiss The days are bright and filled with pain Enclose me in your gentle rain, The time you ran was too insane, We'll meet again, we'll meet again Oh' tell me where your freedom lies, The streets are fields that never die, Deliver me from reasons why You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly The crystal ship is being filled, A thousand girls, a thousand thrills, A million ways to spend your time; When we get back, I'll drop a line" Y
T "Well, show me the way To the next whiskey bar Oh, don't ask why Oh, don't ask why Show me the way To the next whiskey bar Oh, don't ask why Oh, don't ask why For if we don't find The next whiskey bar I tell you we must die I tell you we must die I tell you, I tell you I tell you we must die Oh, moon of Alabama We now must say goodbye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey, oh, you now why Oh, moon of Alabama We now must say goodbye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey, oh, you now why Well, show me the way To the next little girl Oh, don't ask why Oh, don't ask why Show me the way To the next little girl Oh, don't ask why Oh, don't ask why For if we don't find The next little girl I tell you we must die I tell you we must die I tell you, I tell you I tell you we must die Oh, moon of Alabama We now must say goodbye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey, oh, you now why" T
M "You know that it would be untrue; You know that I would be a liar; If I was to say to you; Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on, baby, light my fire, Come on, baby, light my fire, Try to set the night on fire The time to hesitate is through, No time to wallow in the mire, Try now we can only lose, And our love become a funeral pyre The time to hesitate is through, No time to wallow in the mire; If I was to say to you; Girl, we couldn't get much higher" M
Q "Wha, yeah!C'mon, yeah Yeah, c'mon, yeah Yeah, c'mon Oh, yeah, ma Yeah, I'm a back door man I'm a back door man The men don't know But the little girl understand Hey, all you people that tryin' to sleep I'm out to make it with my midnight dream, yeah 'Cause I'm a back door man The men don't know But the little girls understand All right, yeah You men eat your dinner Eat your pork and beans I eat more chicken Than any man ever seen, yeah, yeah I'm a back door man, wha The men don't know But the little girl understand Well, I'm a back door man I'm a back door man Whoa, baby, I'm a back door man The men don't know But the little girls understand" Q
V "This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes Again Can you picture what will be So limitless and free Desperately in need Of some stranger's hand In a desperate land Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain And all the children are insane All the children are insane Waiting for the summer rain There's danger on the edge of town Ride the king's highway, baby Weird seems inside the gold mine Ride the highway west, baby Ride the snake Ride the snake, to the lake, the ancient lake, baby The snake is long seven miles Ride the snake He is old and his skin is cold The West is the best The West is the best Get here and we'll do the rest The blue bus is calling us The blue bus is calling us Driver, where you taking us The killer awoke before dawn He put his boots on He took a face from the ancient gallery And he walked on down the hall He went to the room where his sister lived And then he paid a visit to his brother And then he walked on down the hall And he came to a door,and he looked inside "Father?" - "Yes, son?" - "I want to kill you, Mother, I want to..." Come on, baby, take a chance with us Come on, baby, take a chance with us And meet me at the back of the blue bus (Blue bus still now... Come on, girl) This is the end, beautiful friend This is the end, my only friend, the end It hurts to set you free But you'll never follow me The end of laughter and soft lies The end of night we tried to die This is the end" V
A "C'mon, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon now, Touch me, babe, Can't you see that I am not afraid What was that promise that you made, Why won't you tell me what she said What was that promise that she made Now I'm gonna love you till the heaven stops the rain I'm gonna love you till the stars fall from the sky For you and I" A
J "Don't ya love her madly Don't ya need her badly Don't ya love her ways Tell me what you say Don't ya love her madly Wanna be her daddy Don't ya love her face Don't ya love her as she's walkin' out the door Like she did one thousand times before Don't ya love her ways Tell me what you say Don't ya love her as she's walkin' out the door All your love All your love All your love All your love All your love is gone So sing a lonely song Of a deep blue dream Seven horses seem to be on the mark Yeah, don't you love her Don't you love her as she's walkin' out the door All your love All your love All your love Yeah, all your love is gone So sing a lonely song Of a deep blue dream Seven horses seem to be on the mark Well, don't ya love her madly Don't ya love her madly Don't ya love her madly" J
X "Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalowsAre you a lucky little lady in The City of Light
Or just another lost angel...City of Night
City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woo, c'monL.A. Woman, L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon
L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon
L.A. Woman Sunday afternoon
Drive thru your suburbs
Into your blues, into your blues, yeah
Into your blue-blue Blues
Into your blues, ohh, yeahI see your hair is burnin'
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin' down your freeways
Midnite alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman...
So alone, so alone
So alone, so aloneMotel Money Murder Madness
Let's change the mood from glad to sadnessMr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'
Got to keep on risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'
Mojo Risin', gotta Mojo Risin'
Mr. Mojo Risin', gotta keep on risin'
Risin', risin'
Gone risin', risin'
I'm gone risin', risin'
I gotta risin', risin'
Well, risin', risin'
I gotta, wooo, yeah, risin'
Woah, ohh yeahWell, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalowsAre you a lucky little lady in The City of Light
Or just another lost angel...City of Night
City of Night, City of Night, City of Night, woah, c'monL.A. Woman, L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman, your my woman
Little L.A. Woman, Little L.A. Woman
L.A. L.A. Woman Woman
L.A. Woman c'mon
" X
Poetry
"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain." -- Jim Morrison
"I wouldn't mind dying in a plane crash. It'd be a good way to go. I don't want to die in my sleep, or of old age, or OD...I want to feel what it's like. I want to taste it, hear it, smell it. Death is only going to happen to you once; I don't want to miss it." -- Jim Morrison
"I like any reaction I can get with my music. Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you're doing something." -- Jim Morrison
"The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you." -- Jim Morrison
"The first time I discovered death...me and my mother and father, and my grandmother and grandfather, were driving through the desert at dawn. A truckload of Indians had either hit another car or something- there were Indians scattered all over the highway, bleeding to death. I was just a kid, so I had to stay in the car while my father and grandfather went to check it out. I didn't see nothing- all I saw was funny red paint and people lying around, but I knew something was happening, because I could dig the vibrations of the people around me, and all of a sudden I realized that they didn't know what was happening any more than I did. That was the first time I tasted fear...and I do think, at that moment, the souls of those dead Indians- maybe one or two of them-were just running around, freaking out, and just landed in my soul, and I was like a sponge, ready to sit there and absorb it." -- Jim Morrison
"I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps "Oh look at that!" Then- whoosh, and I'm gone...and they'll never see anything like it ever again...and they won't be able to forget me- ever." -- Jim Morrison
"I am the Lizard King. I can do anything." -- Jim Morrison
"...each day is a drive thru history..." -- Jim Morrison
"This is the strangest life I've ever known" -- Jim Morrison
"The future is uncertain and the end is always near" -- Jim Morrison
"If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it's to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel" -- Jim Morrison
"A friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself." -- Jim Morrison
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." -- Jim Morrison
"We're like actors, turned loose in this world to wander in search of a phantom, endlessly searching for a half-formed shadow of our lost reality. When others demand that we become the people they want us to be, they force us to destroy the person we really are. It's a subtle kind of murder. The most loving parents and relatives commit this murder with smiles on their faces." -- Jim Morrison
"I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between. I want the freedom to try everything." -- Jim Morrison
"When you make your peace with authority, you become an authority." -- Jim Morrison
"A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war." -- Jim Morrison
"Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality. I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: curiosity." -- Jim Morrison
"Think of us as erotic politicians." -- Jim Morrison
"I offer images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the Doors, right? But we can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them unless they want to be free. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up. A person has to be willing to give up everything- not just wealth. All the bullshit that he's been taught- all society's brainwashing. You have to let go of all that to get to the other side. Most people aren't willing to do that." -- Jim Morrison
"I think there's a whole region of images and feelings inside us that rarely are given outlet in daily life. And when they do come out, they can take perverse forms. It's the dark side. Everyone, when he sees it, recognizes the same thing in himself. It's a recognition of forces that rarely see the light of day. The more civilized we get on the surface, the more the other forces make their plea." -- Jim Morrison
"That's what real love amounts to- letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending- performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act- and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession." -- Jim Morrison
"I like ideas about the breaking away or overthrowing of established order. I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road towards freedom - external freedom is a way to bring about internal freedom." -- Jim Morrison
"I think that more than writing and music, my greatest talent is that I have an instinctive knack of self-image propagation. I was very good at manipulating publicity with a few little phrases like 'erotic politicians'. Having grown up with TV and mass magazines, I knew instinctively what people would catch on to, so I dropped those little jewels here and there, seemingly very innocently; of course, I was just calling signals." -- Jim Morrison
"Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors." -- Jim Morrison
"Whoever controls the media, controls the mind." -- Jim Morrison
