The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
JIM MORRISONPeople 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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Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
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All the poems have wolves in them. All but one. The most beautiful one of all. She dances in a ring of fire and throws off the challenge with a shrug.
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You cannot petition the lord with prayer!
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Nobody would stay interested in me if I was normal
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Death Makes Angels of us all.
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All your soft wild promises were words, birds, endlessly in flight.
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We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
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You live you die and death not ends it.
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Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs.
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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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They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security How can they expect me or anyone else to set them free if they don’t really want to be free?
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There are things known and things unknown and in between are The Doors.
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Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.
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To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act – and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image
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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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