Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
JIM MORRISONWhere are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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All our songs are about love, travel and death.
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People cluster to TV, soap operas, movies, theater, pop idols and they have wild emotion over symbols. But in the reality of their own lives, they’re emotionally dead.
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Why does my mind circle around you? Why do planets wonder what it would be like to be you?
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it.
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I see myself as a huge fiery comet, a shooting star. Everyone stops, points up and gasps “Oh look at that!” Then – whoosh, and I’m gone… and they’ll never see anything like it ever again… and they won’t be able to forget me – ever.
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Where are the feasts we were promised? Where is the wine, the new wine, dying on the vine.
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Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn And tied her with fences and dragged her down
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Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
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Love cannot save you from your own fate.
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How can I set free anyone who doesn’t have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it’s a lie – people claim they want to be free
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There’s nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
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How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio.
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I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply.
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There’s the know. And there’s the unknown. And what separates the two is the door, and that’s what i wanta be. Ahh wanna be th’ dooooooooorrr…
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Drugs are a bet with your mind.
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Just anything to get people to think. I mean if you can get a whole room full of drunk, stoned people to actually wake up and think, you’re doing something.
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It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.
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In the beginning we were creating our music, ourselves, every night . . . starting with a few outlines, maybe a few words for a song.
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When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experience.
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We cripple ourselves with lies.
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I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.
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Death Makes Angels of us all.
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No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.
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There are images I need to complete my own reality.
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Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous
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The time to hesitate is through no time to wallowin the mire Try now we can only lose and our love become a funeral pyre
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