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Statistics
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Artists:
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6,825
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Albums:
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34,370
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Lyrics:
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288,483
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Song Views:
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43,914,654
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Reviews:
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10,300
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Comments:
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155,535
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Total Users:
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20,076
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Online Users:
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166
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Usage Statistics
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Back Door Man
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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In southern culture, the phrase "back-door man" refers to a man having an affair with a married woman, using the back door as an exit before the husband comes home.
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Five To One
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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"Five to one" is rumored to be the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, old to young, or non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967, depending on whom you ask. A further urban legend has it as the ratio of Viet Cong to American troops in Vietnam. However, when asked, Jim Morrison said the lyrics were not political.
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Horse Latitudes
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The words are taken from one of the first poems Jim Morrison ever wrote, inspired by a book cover he saw at a local bookstore as a child.
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Love Me Two Times
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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According to band members, the song was about a soldier/sailor on his last day with his girlfriend before shipping out.
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Love Street
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song is about the street in Laurel Canyon, California where Jim Morrison lived with his girlfriend Pamela Courson. Their address was 1812 Rothdell Trail. Morrison and Courson referred to Rothdell Trail as "Love Street" because they would sit on the balcony and watch countless hippies walk by.
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Moonlight Drive
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song is most known to fans as being one of the first written by lead singer and primary songwriter Jim Morrison.
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People Are Strange
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song is about alienation and being an outsider, and, as the aforementioned review also notices, Jim Morrison may have addressed the song both to the hippie culture, to outsiders in general, and/or to users of drugs such as LSD.
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Riders On The Storm
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song's lyrics allude in part to the notorious spree killer Billy Cook, who posed as a hitchhiker and murdered an entire family.
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Shaman's Blues
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song describes a shaman pleading with his ex-lover to return back to him. He states that he knows the woman's "moves and your mind" but doesn't seem to be able to sway her and bring her back to him.
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The Crystal Ship
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The inspiration for the "crystal ship" is an oil rig off of Sand's beach in Isla Vista, California.
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The End
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Submitted By: Big D
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Featured in the movie "Apocalypse Now." It is also on the soundtrack for that movie.
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The End
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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Jim Morrison wrote the lyrics as a tribute to the kind of meditation that his bandmates Robbie Krieger and John Densmore were into, even though he never became attached to it himself.
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The Unknown Soldier
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song was Jim Morrison's reaction to the Vietnam War and the way that conflict was portrayed in American media at the time.
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Touch Me
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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At the end of the song, Morrison can be heard saying, "Stronger than dirt," which was the slogan of the Ajax household cleaning company, because the last four chords of "Touch Me" were the same as those in an Ajax commercial and as a mocking criticism of Krieger, Densmore, and Manzarek wanting to accept an offer from Buick to use "Light My Fire" in a commercial.
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Unhappy Girl
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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According to No One Here Gets Out Alive, Ray Manzarek had to play the entire song backwards when recording it, while drummer John Densmore played backwards high-hat in order to get the sound right.
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We Could Be So Good Together
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Submitted By: Lucid Dreams
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The song has been described as lead singer Jim Morrison's way of telling his audience what kind of world they would be able to create if they simply tried.
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