Morning... Cold wind... School has just started, I see other students arriving while waiting for the bus. Among them, there are no friends of mine. D&G, Baci & Abbracci are their clothing brands, I don't identify with them, but I don't feel out of place, quite the opposite... I love being in total asociality.
That "tunz tunz" disco beat can't distract me from contemplating my new CD, which I was gifted the day before. "Doors, Live in Hollywood" is the title, I saved it for the trip, dying of curiosity. Finally, I see my bus pulling into the square. The moment I've been waiting for since yesterday has arrived...
I board the bus, the heating is off, I turn on the player, and after Morrison's greeting to the audience, the notes of the classic cover "Back Door Man" kick in. Jim is incredibly energetic, the drums keep the rhythm perfectly, and the cold seems to gradually disappear with the notes of that rough blues. "Break on Through" is transformed, and despite the less intense choruses, it is still compelling; I don't know what's keeping me still; the vehicle seems to travel incredibly fast. With "When the Music's Over", an incredible mental state is reached, very calm and exciting during the slower parts but fierce enough in the central section. The best together with "Light My Fire". "You Make Me Real" confirms the album's beauty. Listening to "Universal Mind", it's impossible to remain indifferent. My brain vibrated with every single note, and hearing Jim sing, one can only realize what a loss the music world has suffered.
A fog bank surrounds the bus, fog that increases significantly during the blues rock of "Touch Me", and with a record like this, one can only think of one thing: that fog is actually concert psychedelic smoke, proving that now it's serious, proving that now we're in the heart of the live show, backed by a fiery performance of "Soul Kitchen", where Desmore's drums (much more prominent than on studio albums) seem to go wild. A pause for Jim, with Manzarek's microphone performance in "Close to You" and the instrumental part of "Peace Frog", but the frontman returns in style to excellently sing "Blue Sunday" and especially "Five to One". "Celebration" is an appetizer to an extremely beautiful "Light My Fire", where the duels between Manzarek and Krieger take center stage. It almost feels like watching the stage catch fire...
Just in time, because I see the "Ati Bus Carignano" sign on the yellow post of the stop... my friend touches my arm... I hear a scream, "Damn Marco, what's wrong with you? It's time to get off, hurry up or we'll be stuck on the bus!"... And so I gently placed the CD back in its case and got off... I left my world and started making my way to alight... I realized that the Doors concert had come to an end... Now it's time to return to normal life...
Damn province that takes away the will to live...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
02 Back Door Man (04:35)
Oh yeah babe
Yeah I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
Hey, all you people that tryin' to sleep
I'm out to make it with my midnight dream, yeah
'Cause I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
All right, yeah
You men eat your dinner, eat your pork and beans
I eat more chicken any man ever seen, yeah yeah
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
Well, I'm a back door man
I'm a back door man
Whoa, baby
I'm a back door man
The men don't know
But the little girls understand
03 Break on Through (03:53)
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Chased our pleasure here
Dug our treasure there
Still recall
Time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, yeah!
Wow!
Wow!
Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get
She get
She get
She get high
She get high. She get high.
She get high. She get high.
The woman get high. The woman get high.
She get high. Baby, get high.
She get high. She get high.
The woman get high. She get high.
She get high. Baby, so high.
She get high. She get high.
The woman get high. She get high.
Wow!
She get high. She get high.
I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain us
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, yeah!
All right!
Yeah, made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
04 When the Music's Over (12:08)
When the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
When the music's over
When the music's over
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
For the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end
Cancel my subscription to the resurrection
Send my credentials to the house of detention
I got some friends inside
The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop
A feast of friends, alive she cried
Waiting for me
Outside
Before I sink into the big sleep
I want to hear
I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly
Come back, baby
Back into my arms
We're getting tired of hangin' around
Waitin' around with our heads to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound
Very near yet very far
Very soft yet very clear
Come today
Come today
What have they done to the earth?
What have they done to our fair sister?
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
I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now
Now?
Now!
Persian night, babe
See the light, babe
Save us, Jesus
Save us
So when the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Well the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end
Eh? Okay, let's do one more.
05 You Make Me Real (03:10)
I really want you
Really do
Really need you baby
God knows I do
'Cause I'm not real enough without you
Oh what can I do?
You make me real
You make me feel
Like lovers feel
You make me throw away mistaken misery
Make me feel love
Make me free
Oh c'mon
I really want you
Really do
Really need you baby
Really do
Well I'm not real enough to love you
Oh what can I do?
You make me real
Only you baby
Have that appeal
So let me slide into your tender sunken sea
Make me free love
Make me free
Oh yeah
You make me real
All right
You make me feel
Like lovers feel
You make me throw away mistaken misery
Make me free love
Make me free
Make me free
You make me free
07 Touch Me (03:49)
Come on, come on
Now, touch me, babe
Can't you see that I am not afraid
What was that promise that you made
Why won't you tell me what she said
What was that promise that you made
Now I'm gonna love you
'Til the heavens stop the rain
I'm gonna love you
'Til the stars fall from the sky
For you and I
08 Soul Kitchen (06:50)
Well the clock says it's time to close now
I guess I'd better go now
I'd really like to stay here all night
The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes
Street lights share their hollow glow
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
Still one place to go
Still one place to go
Let me sleep all night
In your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well your fingers weave quick minuets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Learn to forget
Let me sleep all night
In your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well the clock says it's time to close now
I know I'll have to go now
I really wanna stay here all night
All night
All night
10 Close to You (04:44)
(I want to get)
Close to you like black on white,
Close to you like the coldest of ice,
Close to you like a siamese twin,
Close to you like I'm feeling all right.
(I want to get)
Close to you baby, X3
I don't know what to say or do.
(I want to get)
Close to you like the sight of your eye?
Close to you like the heat is to fire,
Close to you baby as close as I can get,
Close to you like water is wet.
(I want to get)
Close to you till I'm feeling all right,
Close to you--gonna love you all night,
Close to you in New York City,
I love you so much you know it's a pity.
Closer and closer baby.
Closer and closer baby.
14 Five to One (05:54)
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive
Now, you get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it baby if we try
The old get old, baby
And the young get stronger
May take a week and it may take longer
They got the guns but, we got the numbers
Gonna win yeah, we're takin' over!
Come on
Your ballroom days are over, baby
Night is drawin' near
Shadows of the evenings
Crawl across the years
You walk across the floor
With a flower in your hand
Tryin' to tell me no one understands
Trade in your hours for a handful of dimes
Gonna make it baby in our prime
Come together one more time
Come together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
16 Light My Fire (13:54)
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher
Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
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