the next song is The End.The End is probably one of the most popular and controversial songs on this album. This eleven minute opera-song is full of symbolic messages that talk about everything from Oedipal connotations to death. Starting out with an echoing guitar argeggio, the bass line and tambourine gradually join in, and the organ has a subtle and soft delivery. Jim tells that this song is The End... of our desperate plans, of everything that stands. The journey is slowly coming to a halt. He says to ride the snake... ride the snake to the ancient lake, presumably the snake can deliver you from this other reality, and back to normal life. Morrison, on the other hand, is going on the blue bus - where it goes, nobody knows. He invites the friend to take the blue bus, but knows it has to go ride the snake. It is the end of laughter and soft lies, the end of nights we tried to die. , the journey is grinding to a halt, this reality is coming to an end. This song got the Doors kicked out of the Whisky when Jim Morrison sang it with the complete lyrics, telling of how he wanted to kill his father and **** his mother.. The Oedipal theme did not go over well at all, and although Morrisons inspiration came from Nietzsches The Birth of Tragedy, nobody cared (Curtis, p. 178-179). His behavior was deemed out of control, much like the rest of his life. When I first listened to this album, I thought that it was full of great sounding songs that are a pleasure to listen to, but after careful analysis, and on another darker level, it deals with the idea of an altered reality that lies beyond the doors of perception. It is cyclic in nature as the journey starts with Break on Through and expires at The End. It peaks at Light My Fire, and goes downward from there, alluding to the end of the album several times. Jim Morrisons poetry is nothing short of remarkable throughout this entire album, as it is beautiful and powerful at the s...
