xpressed his devout love for this woman. It seems to me that it isnt a coincidence that this song, with its climactic connotations, happens to be in the middle of the album. The first five songs deal with the voyage through the doors of perception to the altered reality, and gradually escalate to this pinnacle of the journey through the album.Back Door Man is what Jim Morrison refers himself as in this song. He claims he is out making my midnight creep ,the men dont know, but the little girls understand. Jims lifestyle of sex, drugs, and rock & roll, was full of excesses of each. He would be with one girl and then another one the next night. Back Door Man, is a somewhat comical representation of how he is sneaking out the back door to go out on the town. The End Of The Night is a foreshadowing to the final song of the album, The End. The organ has a unique quality when it is played, as the tones modulate up and down creating a very spooky effect. The tempo in this song is very slow and solemn, which gives it a dreamlike, if not hypnotic quality. Morrison is asking the listener to take a journey to the bright midnight, end of the night, summarizing the overall theme of the album, to explore the limits of reality.In Take It As It Comes, the tempo as well as the message of the song is more upbeat than the previous. Morrison asks to take it easy, youve been moving much too fast, saying that it is better to approach life cautiously and slowly rather than live it up and be out of control. This song, I believe, is slightly hypocritical coming from Jim Morrison. He was one of the most wild and excessive rock stars of that era and he became so addicted to drugs and alcohol that he couldnt function unless he was under the influence of some kind of drug (Smith, video). It could be interpreted as a message to himself in a way, foreshadowing the consequences of what could come of a wild and out of control lifestyle, especially since ...
