The Doors - When The Music is Over

When The Music Is Over Lyric

Yeah, cmon When the musics over When the musics over, yeah,
when the musics over Turn out the lights, turn out the lights
Turn out the lights, yeah
When the musics over !!! Turn out the lights !!!
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends. Music is your only friend
Until the end !!!
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I got some friends inside The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop. A feast of friends,
alive! she cried Waitin for me, outside!
Before I sink, into the big sleep I want to hear,
I want to hear The scream of the butterfly Come back, baby,
back into my arm. We're gettin tired of hangin around
Waitin around with our heads to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound, very near yet very far Very soft,
yeah, very clear, come today, come today
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her
with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences
and dragged her down. I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground We want the world
and we want it... Now, now? , now!
Persian night, babe, see the light, babeSave us!,
jesus!, save us! So when the musics over When the musics over, yeah
When the musics over Turn out the lights !!!
Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends Music is your only friend
Until the end !!!

Song Note : "During live performances, Jim Morrison usually ended up flopping around on the floor. The Doors performed it live many times in 1966 when they were the house band at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go in Los Angeles. It was not released on an album until a year later."

"Arguably, one of the most beautifully intense moments of any Rock song is when Morrison screams, "Persian Night! See the Light! Save Us! Jesus! Save Us!" The first 2 lines reference the wise men from the Bible, often referred to as The Magi. The Magi is a priestly caste from ancient Persia. On that Christmas night the Persian Magi looked into the night and saw the Star of Bethlehem."

"The lyric "scream of the butterfly" is a reference to a porno film."