The Doors – [album] Strange Days

STRANGE DAYS
Strange Days is an album released by The Doors at the end of 1967. This album is considered by some to be among the best works of the band. This concept album contains songs such as “Strange Days”, “People Are Strange, “Love Me Two Times” and “When the Music’s Over”. This last track is a kind of long epic poem that could be compared to the famous “The End”.

The album also includes “Moonlight Drive“, which was one of the first songs written by Jim Morrison for The Doors. The song was recorded in 1965 (demo) and 1966 (intended for their first album). In 1967, a final version was recorded and released on the album Strange Days.

The mystical and mysterious atmosphere that springs out of this album is often compared to the sound of Carmina Burana.

Strange Days

Strange days have found us
Strange days have tracked us down
They’re going to destroy
Our casual joys
We shall go on playing
Or find a new town

Yeah!

Strange eyes fill strange rooms
Voices will signal their tired end
The hostess is grinning
Her guests sleep from sinning
Hear me talk of sin
And you know this is it

Yeah!

The DOORS Lyrics – Album The Doors

THE DOORS

Released in 1967, The Doors was the debut album by the band The Doors, featuring their breakthrough single “Light My Fire”, extended with a substantial instrumental section omitted on the single release, and the lengthy Oedipal song “The End”. “Alabama Song” was originally written and composed by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill for their opera “Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny” (“Rise and Fall of the City Mahagonny”), “Back Door Man” was a Howlin’ Wolf cover. The album’s dark tone and frontman Jim Morrison’s sexual charisma and wild lifestyle influenced much of rock and roll to come. In 1998 Q magazine readers voted The Doors the 93rd greatest album of all time; in 2003 the TV network VH1 placed it at number 60.

 

Break on Through (To The Other Side)

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

Yeah!
C’mon, yeah

Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get
She get
She get
She get high

I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain us
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, oww!
Oh, yeah!

Made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah