"The End" tells of the impending end of a love affair quite possibly by murder. Its an eleven minute psychosexual epic done entirely in one chord (E). The song is an incredible achievement in music, there's nothin

Of course the real value of a piece like "The End" is its freedom of imagery that lets the listeners come up with a bunch of different meanings. So any kind of formal interpretation is meaningless in the attempt. Jim Morrison and The Doors' lyrical thrusts were designed to penetrate our minds and souls first and then the analytical part of us. "The End" deals with myths. The Greek tragedy....the Oedipal love...patricide, or maybe just a simple goodbye song to some girl or goodbye to a kind of childhood. I really don't know. Its sufficiently complex and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be.

To forbidden fantasy of incest and patricide is to where the bus travels. The Oedipal section says, "Kill the father" it means kill all of those things in you that are drilled in you and not of yourself. Those things must die. "Fuck the mother" means get back to the essence, get back to reality. Nature can't lie to you. "The End" contains dark and alluring secrets. The long hall is reminiscent of the womb and the ancient

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