Lyrical Analysis of The End

The night they recorded "The End" would always remain a significant moment for Jim Morrison. After everyone finally went home for the night he couldn't stop thinking about. He climbed an eight-foot-high wooden gate, somehow got back into the studio. He was breathing hard as he took off his shoes and jeans and shirt. Naked he grabbed a large sand ashtray and threw it. Then he pulled a fire extinguisher from a wall and sprayed …showed first 75 words of 710 total…

…showed last 75 words of 710 total…Jim Morrison and The Doors' lyrical thrusts were designed to penetrate our minds and souls first and then the analytical part of us. "The End" deals with myths. The Greek tragedy....the Oedipal love...patricide, or maybe just a simple goodbye song to some girl or goodbye to a kind of childhood. I really don't know. Its sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be.