[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
[quote]LarryDavid wrote:
@DoubleDuce: I agree that Jim Morrison is easily one of the best rock front men ever. In fact I might even put him right below Mick Jagger. But I think we’ll have to agree to disagree on the lyrics. I’ve always thought they were pretentious, and frankly, they sound cheesy too. [/quote]
He was very very very well read and like I said a lot of it comes from renown poetry. He even published poetry they still study in ivy league colleges.[/quote]
Really?
“Ride the snake
Ride the snake
To the lake
The snake he’s old
And his skin is cold”.
Profound!!! LOL
I HATED the Doors all my life until late last year. Now I love them. Though I do not agree that he was a great poet (hell, Elvis Costello, Paul Westerberg, Richard Butler were much more original), he was one of the top 3 frontmen ever, IMHO.
Such a strong presence/persona. He seemed transformed.
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First you misquoted one of my favorite songs.
Second it needs to be in context.
Third, do you know what it means to ride the snake?
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 callin’ us
The blue bus is callin’ 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…WAAAAAA
C’mon baby,--------- No “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
Doin’ a blue rock
On a blue bus
Doin’ a blue rock
C’mon, yeah
Kill, kill, 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
Yes. Those are AWESOME LYRICS.
Unfortunately, you probably need to read some works by Heidegger or other existentialists to get the meaning of most of it.
