The Doors - You Make Me Real [Official Audio]

Like several other Doors songs, "You Make Me Real" was inspired by Jim Morrison's girlfriend (*Pamela Courson).

The lyrics incorporate risqué allusions such as the line "So let me slide into your tender sunken sea," and the chorus goes "You make me real, you make me feel, like lovers feel, you make me throw away mistaken misery, make me free, love, make me free," and the song ends with Jim loudly exclaiming "Make me free."

A rock critic described it this way: A 3-minute preview of that "napalm garage-blues" that the Doors would bring to arenas throughout the '70s; others described it in these terms:
- "An exciting rock track on which the Doors really let loose, a perfect discotheque number loaded with commercial appeal."
- And also, "A rock piece just like in the old days."
- and in the original language: "You Make Me Real" as "a sampling of rowdy rock in the manner of old fashioned material but with an instrumental refinement" and as a "rousing rhythm side with flashy Morrison vocal."

Nevertheless, the single's release reached only No. 40 in the Cash Box Top 100 and No. 50 in the Billboard Hot 100; in Canada, the song reached No. 41.

Line-up:
James Douglas Morrison – vocals
Robert Alan Krieger – guitar
Raymond Daniel Manzarek Jr. – piano and Wurlitzer piano
John Paul Densmore – drums
Ray Neapolitan – bass

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Pamela Susan Courson, three years younger than Jim, was the one who found him dead in the bathtub of their Paris apartment.

She sadly died of a heroin overdose on the couch in the living room of her Los Angeles apartment, also at twenty-seven years old, three years after her Jim.

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