The End
The Doors[Chorus]
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
[Verse 1]
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes again
[Verse 2]
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free
Desperately in need
Of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land
[Verse 3]
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's Highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake, he's long, seven miles
Ride the snake
He's old and his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where you taking us?
[Verse 5]
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
He walked on down the hall, and
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
"Father?" "Yes, son?" "I want to kill you"
"Mother? I want to..."
Come on baby, take a chance with us
Come on baby, take a chance with us
Come on baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Of the blue bus, on the blue bus, on the blue bus
Come on yeah
Fuck, fuck
Fuck fuck, fuck, fuck
Come on baby, fuck me baby yeah
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Come on baby, fuck me baby
Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck
Come on
Fuck fuck
Alright
Fuck fuck
Kill, kill, kill, kill
[Chorus]
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
[Verse 6]
It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end
About
“The End” served as the finale for many of The Doors' most notable concerts. The lyrics are a combination of different variations sung during jam-style performances over several months at the Whiskey A Go Go nightclub in Los Angeles in 1966.
The song was famously used in the iconic opening scene of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film Apocalypse Now, with images of the Vietnam War to the cinematic battle towards the end of the movie between Willard (Martin Sheen’s character) and Kurtz (Marlon Brando’s character).
In a 1969 interview with Rolling Stone, Morrison said the song means something different every time he listened to it:
It started out as a simple good-bye song… Probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood. I really don’t know. I think it’s sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be.
Several musical influences are apparent in Robby Krieger’s composition of this song, including Chopin’s “Funeral March.”
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if you seriously think this whole song is about Jim getting laid, you have some serious research to do
“all the children are insane” comes from freud´s texts. In the primaries stage of development.-
Jim was a genius
The part where he chants “Fuck” is not in the lyrics here, because this is the original album version. In 1967 saying “fuck” on an album would be extreamly controversial. They even removed he word “high” from the bridge in “Break On Through (To The Other Side)”. Now, we live in a much less pc society, and the vocals are available on newer mixes of the album.
I love the doors still to this day 😊
After he says “Mother, I want to…” he shouts “Fuck you,” it is just very hard to understand
The End… of the hippie era, and peace and love… “there’s danger on the edge of town” Charles Manson?
Great song no curse words miss jim Morrison
This actually seems like a recruitment song, aimed at a person far away with a different and maybe more rigid and traditional lifestyle. This person, being infatuated to the point of arousal by “the west,” can’t help wanting to abandon the desperate land where he’s from and everything he inherited in order to join in on the fun.
