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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:18 PM
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Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind
This wasn't on the Doors Poll Vote thread, but I think it gets my vote...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbxIWBITQ6A


Peace frog The Doors

There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles
She came
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee
She came
Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago
She came
Blood on the rise, it's following me
Think about the break of day

She came and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair

She came
Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness
She came
Blood in the streets it's up to my thigh
She came
Yeah the river runs red down the legs of a city
She came
The women are crying red rivers of weepin'

She came into town and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair

Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind

Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven
Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice
Blood in my love in the terrible summer
Bloody red sun of Phantastic L.A.

Blood screams her brain as they chop off her fingers
Blood will be born in the birth of a nation
Blood is the rose of mysterious union

There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee
Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago
Blood on the rise, it's following me


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fizzgig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:21 PM
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1. ...
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:28 PM
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3. He he he!
blood in the streets it's up to my ankles

:evilfrown:
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Zomby Woof Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:24 PM
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2. Ship of Fools
Another favorite of mine...



The human race was dyin' out
No one left to scream and shout
People walking on the moon
Smog will get you pretty soon

Everyone was hanging out
Hanging up and hanging down
Hanging in and holding fast
Hope our little world will last

Yeah, along came Mr. Goodtrips
Looking for a new a ship
Come on, people better climb on board
Come on, baby, now we're going home
Ship of fools, ship of fools

The human race was dyin' out
No one left to scream and shout
People walking on the moon
Smog will get you pretty soon
Ship of fools, ship of fools
Ship of fools, ship of fools
Ship of fools, ship of fools
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:29 PM
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4. I heard Peace Frog on an oldies station in Lubbock, TX...
Edited on Sat Apr-07-07 03:29 PM by VelmaD
while I was an undergrad (many moons ago). Fell completely in love. Of course they didn't give the title of the song and this was before the internet...so I had the damnedest time finding out that it was called Peace Frog. It's been my favorite ever since.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:30 PM
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5. I'd forgotten about it but it is wayyyyy coool!
and the line in the subject line are something that Morrison alluded to apparently at different times.

:shrug:
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GenDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:46 PM
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6. Good one, Southpaw
I haven't heard that in a long time. :hi:
Lyrics are laced with violence and sex.
Morrison was such an angry genius.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 04:56 PM
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8. Yeah angry genius!
or genius that was angry

:headbang:

either way he was da best!

:hug:
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 03:55 PM
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7. How's about this one?
The soft parade

When I was back there in seminary school
There was a person there
Who put forth the proposition
That you can petition the Lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
Petition the lord with prayer
You cannot petition the lord with prayer!

Can you give me sanctuary
I must find a place to hide
A place for me to hide

Can you find me soft asylum
I can't make it anymore
The Man is at the door

Peppermint miniskirts, chocolate candy
Champion sax and a girl named Sandy
There's only four ways to get unraveled
One is to sleep and the other is travel
One is a bandit up in the hills
One is to love your neighbor till
His wife gets home

Catacombs
Nursery bones
Winter women Growing stones
(Carrying babies to the river)

Streets and shoes, Avenues
Leather riders selling news
(The monk bought lunch)

Successful hills are here to stay
Everything must be this way
Gentle streets where people play
Welcome to the Soft Parade

All our lives we sweat and save
Building for a shallow grave
Must be something else we say
Somehow to defend this place
(Everything must be this way
Everything must be this way)

The Soft Parade has now begun
Listen to the engines hum
People out to have some fun
A cobra on my left
Leopard on my right, yeah

Deer woman in a silk dress
Girls with beads about their necks
Kiss the hunter of the green vest
Who has wrestled before
With lions in the night

Out of sight!
The lights are getting brighter
The radio is moaning
Calling to the dogs
There are still a few animals
Left out in the yard
But it's getting harder
To describe sailors
To the underfed

Tropic corridor
Tropic treasure
What got us this far
To this mild equator

We need someone or something new
Something else to get us through

Calling on the dogs
Calling on the dogs
Calling on the dogs
Calling on the dogs
Calling in the dogs
Calling all the dogs
Calling on the gods
Meet me at the crossroads
Meet me at the edge of town
Outskirts of the city
Just you and I
And the evening sky
You'd better come alone
You'd better bring your gun
We're gonna have some fun

When all else fails
We can whip the horses' eyes
And make them sleep
And cry....
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dajoki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 04:58 PM
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9. My favorite
Edited on Sat Apr-07-07 05:12 PM by dajoki
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.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 05:00 PM
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10. Exposing his bad poetry was a worse crime than exposing his lil' Manzarek
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 05:11 PM
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11. Oh Pfffffttt!
go play in the street or something :P


:rofl:
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 05:34 PM
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12. All right. I'll get off your lawn. :P I want my frisbee back though.
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SPKrazy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-07-07 05:39 PM
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13. Here, run!


watch out for the cars :P


:rofl:
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