The Doors – Break On Through

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  General Comment:any Jim Morrison fan knows that "the other side" is where you go after you die!

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  My Opinion:One word:
  Minecraft
  
  "Break on through to the other side"
  
  Digging through a mountain with any tools weapons you got.

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  General Comment:People say The Doors were way ahead of their time. I'd have to disagree. A lot of good musicians(what I consider good musicians) are actually pretty timeless. Timeless in that they make you feel as if they could have written a song a thousand years ago without missing a beat. But it wasn't written a thousand years ago. It drew inspiration from (timeless) artists before them... the blues, jazz, country, rockabilly.... which probably sounds like a contradiction - that a timeless artist fits so well on a timeline...An artist like that is most likely well-read and probably philosophically, socially, and self-aware... they are poets. In that sense they seem a lot more timeless.... and it makes me think about others who've broken to the other side without music or drugs... it's possible. A lot harder to do, but still possible.

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  My Interpretation:All i have to do is look at jim and i wanna have sex.

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  General Comment:This song is pretty straight forward actually. the day destroys the night and the night divides the day is just representative of life. the days and nights pass by. Try to run try to hide, from death most likely. Jim morrison wrote a lot of songs about the subject and this was arguably the most famous of those songs. and then when you can't escape death you break on through to the other side which is a description of the other side of life which is again death.
  
  The next lines about treasure is remembering life. still recalling the time we cried etc. is starting to change the meaning of break on through from a term for death to refer to a time when "we" didn't run from death but maybe ran toward it and some people think that this line he is referencing mind expansion by drug use. That is valid since the song continues to talk about a "girlfriend" or just another person someone loves in a pretty intimate way and is a description of a relationship gone bad. at first he sees a country in his lovers eyes sort of like a new frontier you are happy to engage, but later on in the relationship (arms that chained us eyes that lied) views change and now they feel as though the other is holding them back and now there is resentment. It's a wonderful song and pretty self explanetory.

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  General Comment:I also must say that when the doors took on a new singer i was quite upset and Jim is what made the doors.the doors will never be as when Jim Morrison was in

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  General Comment:if you notice the crow appearing through out the movie that represented Death and that man in the hall was the spirit of Death.Jim knew when he had saw this it was the revelation that life was ending.he was an a great singer and most of all a Poet and i must saw a brilliant man.we take drugs to expand our minds.it wasnt all about a drug kick like people like to make.he was very intelligent, spirital man and also a deep thinker.

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  General Comment:purely about getting to another side of reality by taking drugs, nothing more, nothing less

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  General Comment:I had to sign up just for some of the comments I've read here. This song is about your feelings after you take a psychedelic drug, but before you have been completely sucked down the rabbit hole. It's about this time where you often feel a lot of regret and you want to get out, but there's no escaping it. "Tried to run, tried to hide." But then eventually you can't fight it anymore and it sucks you in completely, "Break on through to the other side". There are other Doors songs that are about both the moments on the other side and the process by which you get there, notably the Soft Parade, the End, When the Music's Over, the Crystal Ship, and the WASP.

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  General Comment:I had to sign up just for some of the comments I've read here. This song is about your feelings after you take a psychedelic drug, but before you have been completely sucked down the rabbit hole. It's about this time where you often feel a lot of regret and you want to get out, but there's no escaping it. "Tried to run, tried to hide." But then eventually you can't fight it anymore and it sucks you in completely, "Break on through to the other side". There are other Doors songs that are about both the moments on the other side and the process by which you get there, notably the Soft Parade, the End, When the Music's Over, the Crystal Ship, and the WASP.

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