The Doors - Spanish Caravan

Spanish Caravan Lyric

Carry me Caravan, take me away
Take me to Portugal, take me to Spain
Andalusia with fields full of grain
I have to see you again and again
Take me, Spanish Caravan
Yes, I know you can
Trade winds find Galleons lost in the sea
I know where treasure is waiting for me
Silver and gold in the mountains of Spain
I have to see you again and again
Take me, Spanish Caravan
Yes, I know you can

Song Note : "Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger wrote this"

"The intro riff was taken from "Asturias," a Classical piece by Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz "

"Krieger played his guitar in a flamenco style. Some parts were processed through a fuzz box"

"Andalusia," which is referred to in the first verse, is the Southernmost area of Spain. It was repeatedly conquered by various groups until it was divided into 8 provinces in 1833

The Doors - Unknown Soldier

Unknown Soldier Lyric

Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older
The unknown soldier

Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Unborn living, living, dead
Bullet strikes the helmet's head

And it's all over
For the unknown soldier
It's all over
For the unknown soldier

Hut Hut Hut ho hee up
Hut Hut Hut ho hee up
Hut Hut Hut ho hee up
Comp'nee Halt
Preeee-zent! Arms!

Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder
The unknown soldier

Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Bullet strikes the helmet's head

And, it's all over
The war is over It's all over
The war is over
Well, all over, baby All over, baby
Oh, over, yeah All over, baby
Wooooo, hah-hah
All over All over, baby
Oh, whoa-yeah All over All over
Heeeeyyyy

Song Notes : "This is an antiwar song, but not specifically about the Vietnam War, which was going on at the time"

"The Doors took over 130 takes to record this. Producer Paul Rothchild was being very particular"

"Many radio stations refused to play this due to its controversial content"

"The Doors developed this when they were on tour in 1967"

"Some of the sounds in this include military drums, commands, and a firing squad. The firing squad was reproduced on stage with Krieger pointing his guitar at Morrison like a rifle, Densmore dropping a reverb unit to make a loud pop, and Morrison dropping as if he was shot. In the studio, the gunshot sound was a rimshot played by John Densmore on the snare drum"

The Doors - Touch Me

Touch Me Lyric

Come on, come on, come on, come on 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

Come on, come on, come on, come on 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 you said?
What was that promise that you made?

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

Stonger than dirt

Song Notes : Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger wrote this as "Hit Me," based on fights he had with his girlfriend. In a rare show of restraint, Jim Morrison insisted on changing it to "Touch Me."

"At the end of the song, Morrison chants "Stronger than dirt!" The line is from an Ajax commercial where a white knight rides around destroying dirt"

"This was released as a single 7 months before the album came out"

"Many critics claimed this was a sellout, as the horn and string sections were not typical of The Doors. The band admitted they were trying to broaden their audience and achieve commercial success with this album, which they did"

"This was popular at the time Morrison was arrested in Miami for indecent exposure. The song had nothing to do with Morrison's arrest, apart from an unfortunate title, but some radio stations refused to play it as a result"

The Doors - Waiting For The Sun

Waiting For The Sun Lyric

At first flash of Eden
We race down to the sea
Standing there on freedom's shore

Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun

Can you feel it
Now that Spring has come
That it's time to live in the scattered sun

Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun.
Waiting for the sun
Waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting,
waiting, waiting, waiting, waiting

Waiting for you to come along
Waiting for you to hear my song
Waiting for you to come along
Waiting for you to tell me what went wrong

This is the strangest life I've ever known

Can you feel it
Now that Spring has come
That it's time to live in the scattered sun

Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun
Waiting for the sun

Song Note : "Waiting For The Sun" is the title of The Doors third album, and they tried to record it in those sessions, but didn't like how it came out. They brought it back 2 years later for their fifth album, Morrison Hotel

"This is about the quest for the American Dream, which is never attained"

The Doors - Moon Light Drive

Live at Hollywood Bowl 1968

Moon Light Drive Lyric

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Penetrate the evening
That the city sleeps to hide

Let's swim out tonight, love
It's our turn to try
Parked beside the ocean
On our moonlight drive.

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
Surrender to the waiting worlds
That lap against our side.
Nothing left open
And no time to decide.
We've stepped into a river
On our moonlight drive.

Let's swim to the moon
Let's climb through the tide
You reach a hand to hold me
But I can't be your guide.
It's easy to love you
As I watch you glide.
We're falling through wet forests
On our moonlight drive.

Come on, baby, gonna take a little ride
Going' down by the ocean side
Gonna get real close
Get real tight
Baby gonna drown tonight.
Going' down, down, down.

Song Notes : "Jim Morrison wrote the lyrics while he was living on a rooftop in Venice Beach, California. At night everything was clear, so he would look into peoples windows, study what they were doing, and watch their TV sets"

"Jim Morrison recited this as a poem to Ray Manzarek when they ran into each other on a beach in Southern California in 1965. Manzarek, who knew Morrison from UCLA film school, thought it was great and convinced him to form a band"

"This was the first song recorded by The Doors. It was left off their first album because they felt it wasn't good enough"

"The lyrics are about a tryst on the beach under the moonlight"

Jim Morrison Possessed By Devil Part 2

Jim Morrison Possessed By Devil Part 1

The Doors - Crawling King Snake

Jim Morrison's Last Performance

The Doors - L.A. Woman

L.A. Woman Lyric

Well....I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around see which way the wind blows,
See the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows.
Are 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.
Whoo! C'mon!

L.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, yeah.
Into your blues. Into your blues.
Oh!

I see your hair is burnin'.
Hills are filled with fire.
If they say I never loved you,
You know they are all liars.

Drivin' down your freeway.
Midnight alleys roam.
Cops in cars. The topless bars.
Never saw a woman
So alone. So alone.
So alone. So alone.

Motel. Money. Murder. Madness.
Let's change the mood from glad to sadness.

Mr. Mojo Risin'. Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'. Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Gotta keep on risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Mr. Mojo Risin'.
Gotta keep on risin'
Risin', risin' Risin', risin'
Risin', risin' Risin', risin'
Risin', risin' Risin', risin'

Well, I took a little downer about an hour ago
Took a look around see which way the wind blows,
See the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows.
Are 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
Oh! Oh!

L.A. Woman L.A. Woman
L.A. Woman L.A. Woman

Song Notes : " 'Mr. Mojo Risin' is an anagram for 'Jim Morrison.' He repeats the phrase at the end of the song faster and faster to simulate orgasm

"Early blues musicians often referred to their "Mojo," like in the Muddy Waters' song "I Got My Mojo Workin'." A mojo is a voodoo charm, usually a bag filled with various plants and items. Different plants would be used for different purposes. If the bag were red, it would be a mojo for love and you would have to put a personal item, such as hair or bit of clothing in order for the mojo to work. If the mojo were made out of a black bag it would be for death. Many white listeners, including Jim Morrison, thought mojo meant sexual energy, and that is how it's usually interpreted today, in part due to Austin Powers movies"

"Morrison recorded his vocals in the studio bathroom to get a fuller sound. He spent a lot of time in there anyway because of all the beer he drank during the sessions"

"This was the title track to the last Doors album before Jim Morrison died. The remaining members released 2 more albums, Other Voices and Full Circle, which both sold poorly"

"The Doors needed extra musicians to record this. Jerry Sheff was brought in to play bass, Marc Benno to play guitar. Sheff and Benno were going to tour with the band, but Morrison's death canceled those plans"

"Morrison got the idea for the "City of Night" lyric from John Rechy's 1963 book of the same name. It describes a sordid world of sexual perversion, which Morrison translated to Los Angeles"

"The first line, "Well, I did a little down about an hour ago" is a reference to a barbituate, specifically Rorer 714"

"The Doors produced this album themselves with the help of their engineer. Paul Rothchild, who produced their first 5 albums, did not want to work on this because he didn't like the songs. He produced an album for Janis Joplin instead"

The Doors - When You Are Strange

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."

The Doors - Light My Fire

Light My Fire Lyric

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
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire,
yeah 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
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
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
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire

Song Note : "Most of the lyrics were written by Doors guitarist Robbie Krieger. He wanted to write about one of the elements: fire, air, earth, and water. Jim Morrison wrote some of the second verse, and Ray Manzarek came up with the organ intro."

"Before this was released, The Doors were an underground band popular in the Los Angeles area. This got the attention of a mass audience. This song became The Doors' signature song. After this song Released on their first album, it was a huge hit and launched them to stardom."

"Jim Morrison indicated in his notebooks that he despised this song and hated performing it. He also seemed to resent that the popularity of the band derived from this song, which he had just a small part writing."

The Doors - Road House Blues

Road House Blues Lyrics

Ah keep your eyes on the road, Your hands upon the wheel.
Keep your eyes on the road Your hands upon the wheel.
Yeah, we're going to the roadhouse, Gonna have a real good-time.
Yeah, the back of the roadhouse, They've got some bungalows.
Yeah, the back of the roadhouse, They've got some bungalows.
They dance for the people Who like to go down slow.
Let it roll, baby roll. Let it roll, baby roll.
Let it roll, baby roll. Let it roll, all night long.
Do it, robby, do it!You gotta roll, roll, roll,
You gotta thrill my soul, alright.Roll, roll, roll,
roll-a Thrill my soul.
Ashen-lady.Ashen-lady. Give up your vows. Give up your vows.
Save our city. Save our city.Ah, right now.
Well, I woke up this morning And I got myself a beer.
Well, I woke up this morning And I got myself a beer.
The futures uncertain And the end is always near.
Let it roll, baby roll. Let it roll, baby roll.
Let it roll, baby roll. Let it roll, all night long.

Song Note : "When Jim Morrison got drunk, he liked to sing Blues numbers at their jam sessions. They jammed on a lot of Blues numbers, and came up with this at one of the sessions."

"Jim Morrison came up with the line about keeping your "Eyes on the road, your hands up on the wheel" after riding with his girlfriend, Pamela Courson, to a cottage they owned outside Los Angeles. She was driving erratically."

"This was the first song on Morrison Hotel. The album was a return The Doors' earlier style. On their previous album, The Soft Parade, they used a lot of strings and horns. Morrison didn't do much on that album because he was drunk for most of it and had nothing to do while all the instrumentation was being worked out. Before The Doors had a record deal, they played many Blues songs in their long club shows."

The Doors - Riders On The Strom

1971

Riders on The Storm Lyrics

Riders on the storm Riders on the storm
Into this house were born, Into this world were thrown
Like a dog without a bone, An actor out on loan
Riders on the storm Theres a killer on the road
His brain is squirmin like a toad Take a long holiday
Let your children play If ya give this man a ride
Sweet memory will die Killer on the road,
yeah Girl ya gotta love your man Girl
ya gotta love your man Take him by the hand
Make him understand The world on you depends
Our life will never end, Gotta love your man,
yeah Wow!Riders on the storm Riders on the storm
Into this house were born, Into this world were thrown
Like a dog without a bone An actor out alone
Riders on the storm Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm Riders on the storm
Riders on the storm Riders on the storm

Song Note : "This was the last song Jim Morrison recorded. He went to France and died a few weeks later. The single was released in June, 1971, shortly before Morrison's death. This was the last song on the last Doors album with Morrison. Fittingly, it ends with the storm fading slowly to silence. The remaining Doors released 2 more albums without Morrison before breaking up in 1972. In 2002, Kreiger and Manzarek reunited as "The Doors Of The 21st Century." Densmore, who says he wasn't invited to join them, went to court and eventually got a ruling preventing the group from using The Doors in its name, so they changed their name to "Riders On The Storm" after this song."

The Doors - Break On Through To The Other Side

Break on Through to The Other Side

You know the day destroys the night,Night divides the day
Tried to run, tried to hide, Break on through to the other side,
Break on through to the other side,
Break on through to the other side, yeah.
We chased our pleasures here, Dug our treasures there,
But can you still recall the time we cried?
Break on through to the other side,
Break on through to the other side.Yeah!
C'mon,yeah. Everybody loves my baby, Everybody loves my baby.
She gets high She gets high She gets high She gets high yeahhhh!
I found an island in your arms, A country in your eyes,
Arms that chained us, eyes that lied.
Break on through to the other side,
Break on through to the other side,Break on through, wow,
oh yeah! Made the scene week to week, Day to day, hour to hour,
The gate is straight, deep and wide,
Break on through to the other side,
Break on through to the other side,Break
on through,Break on through, Break on through,
Break on through, Break, Break,
Break, Break, Break, Break, Break, Break, Break.

Song Note : "Jim Morrison got some of the lyrics from John Rechy's 1963 book "City of Night." This was the first song on The Doors first album, and also their first single. It got some airplay on Los Angeles radio stations after their friends and fans kept requesting it."

The Doors - Hello I Love You

on The Street in CopenHagen 1968

Hello I love You Lyrics

Hello, I love you. Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you. Let me jump in your game.
Hello, I love you. Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you. Let me jump in your game.
She's walking down the street Blind to every eye she meets.
Do you think you'll be the guy
to make the queen of the angels sigh?
Hello, I love you. Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you. Let me jump in your game.
Hello, I love you. Won't you tell me your name?
Hello, I love you. Let me jump in your game.
She holds her head so high like a statue in the sky.
Her arms are wicked, and her legs are long.
When she moves my brain screams out this song.
Sidewalk crouches at her feet like a dog
that begs for something sweet.
Do you hope to make her see, you fool?
Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel?
Hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello,
I want you, Hello I need my baby, Hello,
hello, hello, hello

Song Note : "Jim Morrison wrote this in 1965 after seeing a beautiful woman walking on the beach. He thought up the song and wrote it that night. The song was not recorded until 3 years later."

"The line "Queen of the angels" refers to Los Angeles, the "City of Angels" The Doors were from LA."

"This was the first Doors song that was successful in Europe."

The Doors - Back Door Man

Black and White Footage

Back Door Man Lyric

Wha, yeah!, cmon, yeah, yeah, cmon, yeah yeah,
cmon, 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 dont 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 dont know,
But the little girl understand,
Well, I'm a back door man, I'm a back door man.
Whoa, baby, Im a back door man.
The men don't know, But the little girls understand

Song Note : "A Willie Dixon blues song from 1961, this has been covered by John Hammond Jr. and Howlin' Wolf, among others. The Doors decided to cover this after their guitarist Robbie Krieger heard John Hammond Jr.'s version."

"A 'Back Door Man' is a guy who has relations with a woman while her husband has been out slaving away to provide for her. The usual guilty perpetrator if a wife was caught cheating was a regular tradesman caller (Ice Man, Insurance Salesman etc.). He would then run out the back door as the husband entered the front door."

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."