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The Music of The Doors

ove - he obviously doesnt want to leave this place, as it is here where his mind is free to explore and test the bounds of reality. When he adds, turn me out and Ill wander, he is saying that once he leaves this place, he will feel lost and out of place.The Crystal Ship, that Morrison sings about , can be a metaphor for the hallucinagenic drug itself. He explains the crystal ship is being filled. A thousand girls, a thousand thrills. These are the pleasures awaiting him once he embarks on the crystal ship. His lover in the song doesnt want to go, youd rather cry, Id rather fly, and so he leaves, saying When we get back, Ill drop a line.The next song, Twentieth Century Fox, to me, can have two different meanings. One one hand, it can describe a woman that Jim Morrison admires - shes the queen of cool, and shes the lady who waits. A twentieth century fox - an ideal woman for the time. On the other hand, it can be a metaphor for drugs. Got the world locked up in a little plastic box could describe how in that box is the drug, which contains that altered reality. No tears, no fears, no ruined years, no clocks all describe how in an altered state one can lose sense of time and escape their pain. The subject of The Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) is one of needing to go to the next bar in order to escape reality again. Morrison says that if he cant find the next one I tell you we must die. Dying it seems, is the only alternative to this problem, and Jim seemed to have a certain fascination with death. He always wanted to test the bounds of reality, and skirt the edge of death, just to see what it was like. If he couldnt continue his lifestyle the way he wanted it, there would be no real reason to live (Smith, video).In Light My Fire , Morrison is constantly singing to his woman come on baby light my fire, try to set the night of fire. Throughout the whole song, many of the verses explore passionate emotions, and Morrison e...

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