1. What Doors lyrics follow these? Dont ya love her madly Wanna be her daddy Dont ya love her face Dont ya love her as shes walkin out the door Correct Answer: Like she did one thousand times before - You were correct. ( 96% got it correct ) Love Her Madly, from their final album before Jim died in 1971, L.A. Woman. Actually, much of this song was written by guitarist Robby Krieger, inspired by the many times his girlfriend had left him and returned. 2. Read these Jim Morrison lyrics and pick the line that comes next. Lets swim to the moon, uh huh Lets climb through the tide Correct Answer: Penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide - You were correct. ( 77% got it correct ) The opening words to Moonlight Drive. This was one of the first songs Jim wrote and the Doors recorded, but they felt it wasnt good enough to include on their first album; it wound up on Strange Days, their 1967 followup album. Morrison and keyboardist Ray Manzarek had a chance meeting in 1965; Morrison sang Moonlight Drive to him and this partially served as an impetus for starting the band. 3. What line follows these Doors lyrics? Theres blood in the streets, its up to my ankles Blood in the streets, its up to my knee Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago Correct Answer: Blood on the rise, its following me - You were correct. ( 78% got it correct ) The blood-soaked imagery of Peace Frog from 1970s Morrison Hotel. The Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago refers to the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago, in which there were numerous violent clashes between police and demonstrators. The song also invokes bloody references to Jims 1967 onstage arrest in New Haven, CT, and to an episode from his childhood in which he came upon a truckload of dying Indian workers who had been in an auto accident. 4. Read these Jim Morrison lyrics and pick the line that comes next. Your ballroom days are over, baby Night is drawing near Shadows of the evening crawl across the years You walk across the floor with a flower in your hand Correct Answer: Trying to tell me no one understands - You were correct. ( 65% got it correct ) Five to One from 1968s Waiting for the Sun. The title of the song has been explained as the ratio of a number of things in the United States at the time: whites to blacks, those who didnt smoke pot to those who did, old to young. The opening lines of the song, Five to one baby, one in five, no one here gets out alive, provided the title for No One Here Gets Out Alive, the first extensive biography of Jim Morrison. 5. What line follows these Doors lyrics? You know the day destroys the night Night divides the day Tried to run Tried to hide Correct Answer: Break on through to the other side - You were correct. ( 95% got it correct ) Break On Through, the first song on their 1967 self-titled debut album, and the first single released from it. The record company edited the audio so that Morrisons lyric She gets high came out sounding like She gets auugghhhh, although most Doors fans knew what he was saying. 6. What lyrics or words of Jim Morrisons follow these? Strange days have found us Strange days have tracked us down Theyre going to destroy Correct Answer: Our casual joys - You were correct. ( 51% got it correct ) Title song from Strange Days, the Doors second album. Full of great music, and considered by several critics to be the bands best work, Strange Days is also noteworthy for its cover. Their debut album featured pinup-type closeups of the band on the cover. Strange Days had a slightly weird scene of circus street performers, with the only reference to the band being a small poster (actually a reproduction of their first albums cover) in the background. It was Morrisons way, and the bands, of saying that the groups music, and not its looks, would do the talking for them from that point forward. 7. Given the following Doors lyrics, choose which line comes next. Breakfast where the news is read Television, children fed Unborn living, living, dead Correct Answer: Bullet strikes the helmets head - You were correct. ( 72% got it correct ) The Unknown Soldier from Waiting for the Sun. The song was promoted with a video in which the Doors escort Morrison along a beach and he is executed by firing squad, blood pouring from his mouth as he falls. Needless to say, the video didnt receive much airplay. The band also recreated the firing squad in their concerts, with Kriegers guitar acting as a gun and a drum rimshot for the sound of the gun. No blood though. 8. What lyrics or words of Jim Morrisons follow these? The days are bright and filled with pain Enclose me in your gentle rain The time you ran was too insane Correct Answer: Well meet again, well meet again - You were correct. ( 63% got it correct ) The Crystal Ship from their debut album. A pretty song, it has been interpreted to have been inspired by a breakup with a girlfriend, a drug trip, and an oil tanker that Jim once saw, among probably dozens of other things. 9. What line follows these Jim Morrison lyrics? Well, if I get my hands on a dollar bill gonna buy a bottle and drink my fill If I get my hands on a number five gonna skin that little girl alive Correct Answer: If I get my hand on a number two come back home and marry you - You were correct. ( 57% got it correct ) Land Ho from Morrison Hotel. Whatre the odds that the first bill Jim found had George Washingtons picture on it? 10. Given the following Doors lyrics, choose which line comes next. Dead presidents corpse in the drivers car The engine runs on glue and tar Come on along, not goin very far Correct Answer: To the East to meet the Czar - You were correct. ( 54% got it correct ) From Waiting for the Suns Not to Touch the Earth. Not to Touch the Earth is actually a musical excerpt from The Celebration of the Lizard, a poem Jim often performed in concert. The Lizard poem was typically 15 minutes to more than half an hour in length in performance. Depending on ones attitude (or drug intake), it was either Jims masterpiece, or a self-indulgent mess. Not sure where I stand on any of that - but Im glad that the man who wrote Dead presidents corpse in the drivers car, the engine runs on glue and tar never dated my sister. 11. What Doors lyrics follow these? Love me one time, I could not speak Love me one time, yeah, my knees got weak But love me two times, girl Correct Answer: Last me all through the week - You were correct. ( 86% got it correct ) Love Me Two Times from Strange Days, another song with lyrics from Robbie Krieger. 12. What line follows these Doors lyrics? Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain And all the children are insane All the children are insane Correct Answer: Waiting for the summer rain - You were correct. ( 71% got it correct ) From The End, the final song on their first album. The End was the first and greatest of the Doors performance songs. It begins as a sad and moving, but pretty standard-sounding, appeal to a departing friend or lover. The lyrics get stranger and evolve into weird poetry that combines drug trip references with hints of mythology. This transitions into a blunt and brutal Oedipal section, giving way to jarring and trippy music, before easing back into the songs ending, as standard as its beginning. The End got the group noticed when they were performing it in their club shows. Later, Francis Ford Coppola included it in his 1978 film Apocalypse Now, winning the Doors attention from a new generation of fans seven years after Morrison died. 13. Read these Jim Morrison lyrics and pick the line that comes next. Sidewalk crouches at her feet Like a dog that begs for something sweet Do you hope to make her see, you fool? Correct Answer: Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel? - You were correct. ( 83% got it correct ) Another of the Doors earliest songs, Hello I Love You was written in 1965 before being included on Waiting for the Sun. Jim had seen an attractive black girl on the beach and been warned off by Ray that she was too young for him, so he wrote the song to memorialize her. The music in the song was similar enough to the Kinks song All Day and All of the Night that Kinks guitarist Ray Davies sued the Doors and won the British royalties for Hello I Love You. 14. Given the following Doors lyrics, choose which line comes next. Theres a killer on the road His brain is squirmin like a toad Take a long holiday Let your children play If ya give this man a ride Correct Answer: Sweet family will die - You were correct. ( 80% got it correct ) Riders On the Storm from L.A. Woman. The quiet and brooding keyboards in the song got it derided as cocktail music, although its unlikely too many popular lounge songs involve a demented killer on the road scheming to kill a family who offers him a ride. Jim wrote a screenplay or poem, in which he plays such a killer. A recording exists from this, of him making a phone call saying hed killed someone in the desert. This is on 1978s collection, An American Prayer. Its pretty chilling to listen to. 15. What words of Jim Morrisons follow these? When the still sea conspires an armor And her sullen and aborted Currents breed tiny monsters Correct Answer: True sailing is dead - You were correct. ( 50% got it correct ) The poem Horse Latitudes from Strange Days. Inspired by a book cover illustration hed seen as a child, showing horses being thrown off Spanish galleons to lighten their load in stormy seas, Horse Latitudes describes that very act. Lets just say that it doesnt have a good beat and you cant dance to it. Disturbing stuff. 16. What line follows these Doors lyrics? With hunger at her heels Freedom in her eyes She dances on her knees Pirate prince at her side Correct Answer: Starin into a hollow idols eyes - You were correct. ( 57% got it correct ) Wild Child from 1969s The Soft Parade. A number of women from Jims past, and men who worked with the Doors, have since come forward claiming that the song is about them. 17. Read these Jim Morrison lyrics and pick the line that comes next. Drivin down your freeways Midnight alleys roam Cops in cars, the topless bars Correct Answer: Never saw a woman so alone, so alone - You were correct. ( 80% got it correct ) L.A. Womans title song, a trip through the seamier sides of Los Angeles. Jim Morrison loved word games, and he invokes one of his most famous ones in this song. He often called himself Mr. Mojo Risin, an anagram of the letters in his name. Toward the end of L.A. Woman, he starts chanting the words Mr. Mojo Risin, speeding up and building up to the songs last verse. This quiz title (Mr. Mojo Rhymin) lends itself to some interesting anagrams as well: Hmm join Mr. Roy - Would have worked better had Roy Orbison died before Jim. Roomy Jim hymn - Perhaps a solemn song commemorating the days when he was overweight? Jimmy mo horny - Okay, lets move on! 18. What Doors lyrics follow these? The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose Correct Answer: And our love become a funeral pyre - You were correct. ( 93% got it correct ) Light My Fire, of course. The Doors first and biggest hit, the song that probably forever defined them and Jim in the minds of most casual music fans - and it was Robbie Krieger who wrote most of the lyrics, the memorable organ introduction, and the hypnotic keyboard/guitar duet in the middle. Two classic Doors moments center around the song. In the first, they appeared on the popular Ed Sullivan television variety show in September 1967. They had been asked by the network to change the words girl we couldnt get much higher - to what exactly, Ive never read - and were banned from appearing on the show again after leaving the lyrics intact in their performance. In the other one, General Motors had proposed an advertising campaign for 1970, built around the slogan Come on Buick, light my fire. The other three Doors had already agreed to accept $75,000 for the use of the words and song in the campaign when Jim got wind of it and killed the deal. I think hed have liked my Ive just gotta buy some Goodyear tires lyric though! 19. What words of Jim Morrisons follow these? Now, listen to this, and Ill tell you bout the Texas Ill tell you bout the Texas Radio Ill tell you bout the hopeless night Wandering the Western dream Correct Answer: Tell you bout the maiden with wrought iron soul - You were correct. ( 58% got it correct ) The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat) from L.A. Woman. The song was really music added to a poem that Jim had written years before, about Mexican radio stations that blasted their signals into Texas. From it, we get two of Jims more memorable lines: Out here on the perimeter there are no stars, out here we is stoned - immaculate, and No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. 20. What line follows these Doors lyrics? Successful hills are here to stay Everything must be this way Gentle streets where people play Correct Answer: Welcome to the soft parade - You were correct. ( 74% got it correct ) From the mysterious title song to The Soft Parade. The song opens with Jim channeling a fiery preacher lecturing about petitioning the Lord with prayer, then shifts into several tempo changes as a backdrop for word games and nonsense rhymes from Jim. 21. Read these Jim Morrison lyrics and pick the line that comes next. Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen Warm my mind near your gentle stove Turn me out and Ill wander baby Correct Answer: Stumblin in the neon groves - You were correct. ( 64% got it correct ) Soul Kitchen from The Doors album. Morrison wrote the song in 1965 as a tribute to an inexpensive soul food restaurant near where he lived with Ray Manzarek. Manzarek later ran the lyrics of the song by John Densmore, successfully enticing him to join the group as its drummer. 22. Given the following Doors lyrics, choose which line comes next. People are strange when youre a stranger Faces look ugly when youre alone Women seem wicked when youre unwanted Correct Answer: Streets are uneven when youre down - You were correct. ( 88% got it correct ) People are Strange from Strange Days. Feeling depressed one day, Morrison walked up a hill that offered wonderful views of the city of Los Angeles. His mood brightened by the view, he walked down, feeling like a stranger to the world hed known, and made up many of the songs lyrics on the return trip. 23. What words of Jim Morrisons follow these? Before I sink Into the big sleep I want to hear I want to hear Correct Answer: The scream of the butterfly - You were correct. ( 69% got it correct ) When the Musics Over from Strange Days. When the Musics Over was another poetic performance piece from the group, similar to The End, with a listener-friendly beginning and end, and a disturbing middle with Apocalyptic poetry and lyrics from Morrison. He would sometimes outright stop in the middle of the song for minutes at a time, hoping to incite the audience. I want to hear, I want to hear, the scream of the butterfly - man, Jim, heavy stuff. 24. Read these Jim Morrison lyrics and pick the line that comes next. Well, I woke up this morning, I got myself a beer Well, I woke up this morning, and I got myself a beer Correct Answer: The futures uncertain, and the end is always near - You were correct. ( 82% got it correct ) The jauntily rocking Roadhouse Blues, the opening song on Morrison Hotel. Lovin Spoonful singer John Sebastian played the prominent harmonica on the recording, listing himself as G. Puglese in the credits because of the negative reputation the band had at the time - Morrisons lewd behavior trial in Miami was underway at the time the album came out. 25. What words of Jim Morrisons follow these? No more money, no more fancy dress This other kingdom seems by far the best Until its other jaw reveals incest & loose obedience to a vegetable law I will not go Correct Answer: Prefer a feast of friends to the giant family - You were correct. ( 43% got it correct ) From Jims poem Feast of Friends, part of the eclectic 1978 collection An American Prayer. There is a scorching live rendition of Roadhouse Blues on An American Prayer, but the all the rest of the album is Jims spoken poetry - sometimes not for the faint of the heart, and generally for only the most passionate of Morrison fans.
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