A DOORS TRIBUTE
'I want to get my kicks
before the whole
shithouse
goes up in flames’
he told me feeling
clever and posing and
pouting:
‘I don’t think Morrison
got his kicks, heroin
or
heart attack in a Paris
bath-tub and the world
isn’t engulfed in fire
and maybe you’ll get
closer than
James Douglas
ever did but no one
here gets out alive,
kicks or no kicks’
I told him:
he looked away,
‘This is the end’
he sang and I
couldn’t deny him
that.
Jim Morrison and the Doors Live Concert in the Street -- Fabrizio Cassetta
James Douglas Morrison formed the Doors with Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, and John Densmore in 1965. After they were signed to a recording contract to Elektra in 1967 they made 6 studio albums before Morrison's death of heart failure in Paris in 1971, at 27. He was found by his common-law wife Pamela Courson in a bathtub in their apartment. He left behind a poetry notebook which included the lines, "Tell them you came & saw & look'd into my eyes & saw the shadow of the guard receding." His 1st biography was "No One Here Gets Out Alive" by Jerry Hopkins, published in 1980; it took its title from a line in one of Morrison's songs, "Five to One" from the 1968 album "Waiting for the Sun" and was infamously performed by the Doors in Miami, Florida, in 1969 -- during its performance he called the audience idiots and slaves.
ReplyDeleteYeah, c'mon
Love my girl
She lookin' good
C'mon
One more
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
If we try
The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!
Yeah!
Your ballroom days are over, baby
Night is drawing near
Shadows of the evening crawl across the years
Ya walk across the floor with a flower in your hand
Trying to tell me no one understands
Trade in your hours for a handful dimes
Gonna' make it, baby, in our prime
Come together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, aha
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, gotta, get together
Ohhhhhhhh!
Hey, c'mon, honey
You won't have along wait for me, baby
I'll be there in just a little while
You see, I gotta go out in this car with these people and...
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, got to
Get together, got to
Get together, got to
Take you up in my room and...
Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah
Love my girl
She lookin' good, lookin' real good
Love ya, c'mon
"The End" was from the group's 1st album, "The Doors," in 1967 and was the last song they performed in public, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1970.
ReplyDeleteThis 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, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes 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's 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 taken' 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 into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
"Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you"
Mother? I want to..."
C'mon baby,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, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway, baby
Weird scenes 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's 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 into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
"Father?' "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you"
"Mother? I want to..."
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
C'mon baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Of the blue bus, on the blue bus, on the blue bus
Come on yeah
Fuck, fuck
Fuck fuck, fuck, fuck
Come on baby, fuck me baby yeah
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Come on baby, fuck me baby
fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Come on
Fuck fuck
Alright
Fuck fuck
Kill, kill, kill, kill
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 nights we tried to die
This is the end