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People are strange when you're a stranger
Faces look ugly when you're alone
Women seem wicked when you're unwanted
Streets are uneven when you're down.
This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
I'll tell you this —
No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me.
Don't worry, the operation won't take long and you'll feel much better in the morning.
This is it
no more fun
the death of all joy
has come.
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)
The future's uncertain and the end is always near
Alchemy is an erotic science, involved in buried aspects of reality, aimed at purifying and transforming all being and matter.
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)
Resident mockery
give us an hour for magic
An American Prayer (1978)
I think, in these days, especially in the States, you have to be a politician or an assassin or something, to really be a superstar.
When You're Strange (2009)
There's a killer on the road
His brain is squirming like a toad.
At first flash of Eden, We race down to the sea.
Standing there on Freedom's shore.
Waiting for the sun...
Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache
I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.
Hello, I love you, won't you tell me your name? Hello, I love you, let me jump in your game.
Strange, fertile correspondences the alchemists sensed in unlikely orders of being. Between men and planets, plants and gestures, words and weather.
Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages
Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests
An American Prayer (1978)
When you're strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you're strange
No one remembers your name
When you're strange.
There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.
Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel?
Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone (1981)
The subject says "I see first lots of things which dance — then everything becomes gradually connected".
The Lords and the New Creatures: Poems (1969)