by Jim Morrison

Lions in the street and roaming

Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming

A beast caged in the heart of a city

The body of his mother

Rotting in the summer ground.

He fled the town.

He went down South

And crossed the border

Left the chaos & disorder

Back there

Over his shoulder.

One morning he awoke in a green hotel

With a strange creature groaning beside him.

Sweat oozed from its shiny skin.

Is everybody in?

Is everybody in?

Is everybody in?

The ceremony is about to begin.

Wake up!

You can't remember where it was.

Had this dream stopped?

The snake was pale gold glazed & shrunken.

We were afraid to touch it.

The sheets were hot dead prisons.

And she was beside me, old,

She's, no; young.

Her dark red hair.

The white soft skin.

Now, run the mirror in the bathroom,

Look!

She's coming in here.

I can't live through each slow century

of her moving.

I let my cheek slide down

The cool smooth tile

Feel the good cold stinging blood.

The smooth hissing snakes of rain...

Once I had, a little game

I like to crawl, back into my brain

I think you know, the game I mean

I mean the game, called 'go insane'

Now you should try, this little game

Just close your eyes, forget your name

forget the world, forget the people

and we'll erect, a different steeple.

This little game, is fun to do

Just close your eyes, no way to lose

And I'm right there, I'm going too

Release, control, we're breakig through

Burrow back into the brain

Way back past the realm of pain

Back where there's never any rain

And the rain falls gently on the town.

And over the heads of all of us

And in the labyrinth of streams

Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of

Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around,

Reptiles abounding

Fossils, caves, cool air heights.

(Each house house repeats a mold,

Windows rolled, beast car

Locked in against morning.

All now sleeping, rugs silent,

Mirrors vacant, dust blind

Under the beds

Of lawful couples wound

in sheets & daughters,

Smug with semen, eyes

in their nipples.)

Wait!

Their's been a slaughter here (siren)

(Don't stop to speak or look around

Your gloves & fan are on the ground

We're getting out of town

We're going on the run

And you're the one I want to come)

Not to touch the earth

Not to see the sun

Nothing left to do but run, run, run

Let's run

House upon the hill

Moon is lying still

Shadows of the trees

Witnessing the wild breeze

C'mon baby

Run w/ me

Let's run

The mansion is warm at the top of the hill

Rich are the rooms & the comforts there

Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs

& you won't know a thing 'til you get inside.

Dead president's corpse in the driver's car

The engine runs glue and tar

C'mon along, we're not going very far

To the East to meet the Czar.

Some outlaws live by the side of the lake

The minister's daughter in love with the snake

Who lives in a well by the side of the road

Wake up, girl, we're almost home.

Sun sun sun

Burn burn burn

Soon soon soon

Moon-moon-moon

I will get you

Soon

Soon

Soon!

(Scream)

Let the carnival bells ring

Let the serpent sing

Let everything

(Bells)

Fade

Desert Night

Voices of the Fire

"We came down the rivers & highways

We came down from forests & falls

We came down from Carson & Springfeild

We came down from Pheonix enthralled

And I can tell you the names of the kingdom

I can tell you the things that you know

Listening for a fistful of silence

Climbing the valleys into the shade"

Sounds of the Fire

(Whistles, rattlesnakes, castanets)

"I am the Lizard King

I can do anything

I can make the earth stop in its tracks

I made the blue cars go away.

For seven years I dwelt

in the loose palace of exile,

Playing strange games

w/ the girls of the island.

Now I have come again

To the land of the fair, & the strong, & the wise.

Brothers & sisters of the pale forest

O Children of Night

Who among you will run w/ the hunt?

--cries of assent--

Now Night arrives with her purple legion.

Retire now to your tents & to your dreams.

Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth.

I want to be ready."

--music--fade---end

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