This is the strangest life I’ve ever known.
JIM MORRISONThat’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence.
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Give me songs to sing and emerald dreams to dream and I’ll give you love unfolding.
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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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We don’t plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we’ll play.
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There are images I need to complete my own reality.
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People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains. They fight anyone who tries to break those chains. It’s their security..
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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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We could plan a murder Or start a religion.
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Thoughts in time and out of season, the hitchinker stood by the side of the road and levelled his thumb in the calm calculus of reason
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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. You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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Let’s just say I was testing the bounds of reality…
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That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is..
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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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Listen, real poetry doesn’t say anything; it just ticks off the possibilities. Opens all doors. You can walk through anyone that suits you.
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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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Choose the day and choose the sign of your day! The day’s divinity! First thing you see!!
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The time to hesitate is through.
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Everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that’s bullshit! People are terrified to be set free – they hold on to their chains.
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We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.
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No one here gets out alive.
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The grand highway is crowded w/lovers & searchers & leavers so eager to please & forget. Wilderness.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces.
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You have a lot of small choices. It’s like . . . I guess it’s the difference between suicide and slow capitulation . . .
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All our lives we sweat and save, Building for a shallow grave.
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You feel your strength in the experience of pain.
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The Night is young & full of rest I can’t describe the way she’s dress’d She’ll pander to some strange requests Anything that you suggest Anything to please her guest.
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