The Doors - The End

The End Lyric

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 we’ll be, So limitless and free?
Desperately in need of some stranger’s hand in a desperate landLost
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
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 he’s 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. Da blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us. Driver where you takin’ 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,
And 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,
yeah and he came to a door, and he looked inside Father?
“Yes son?”I want to kill you…Mother? I want to… fuck you all night
yeah, Come on, yeah Come on baby, take a chance with us, 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
Doin’ a blue rock On the blue bus, Doin’ a blue rockCome on, yeahFuck, fuck
yeahFuck, fuck, fuck fuck fuck yeahCome on baby,Fuck me baby, fuck yeah, Hey,
fuckfuckFuck… yeah Fuck me, yeah Come on baby, fuck me baby Fuck fuck,
whoah, whoah, yeahYeah, fuck yeah, Come on, huh huh huh yeah,
All right…Kill… 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

Song Note : "The Doors developed this during live performances at the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, a Los Angeles club where they were the house band in 1966. They had to play 2 sets a night, so they were forced to extend their songs in order to fill the sets. This gave them a chance to experiment with their songs. This started as a short song about a farewell to a girl, and developed into an 11 minute epic."

"One night, Morrison didn't show up for his gig as the Whiskey-A-Go-Go. After their first set, the band retrieved Morrison from his apartment, where he had been tripping on acid. They always played this as the last song, but Morrison decided to play it early in the set, and the band went along. When they got to the part where Morrison could do a spoken improvisation, he started talking about a killer, and said, "Father, I want to kill you. Mother, I want to f--k you!" The crowd went nuts, but they were fired right after the show. The Doors had recently signed a record deal and they had established a large following, so getting fired from the Whiskey was not a crushing blow."

"This is supposedly the last song Morrison heard. The night he died, he was playing old Doors albums, ending with this one. This was the last song on that album."