The Doors – Soul Kitchen

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  General Comment:A man, is in his girlfriend's home and he likes to stay layed on the couch with his head above her lap looking at the ceiling and thinking in nothing while she caress his head and hair with her fingers. As her parents live there and is late on night, he has to out but outside is not better than stay there.

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  General Comment:Trippin on acid song

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  General Comment:Hi, please help me with the lines:
  
  "Well, your fingers weave quick minarets
  Speak in secret alphabets"
  
  I cannot seem to understand em!

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    Minarets are towers like the ones outside the Taj Mahal. I think these lines are pure poetry, and he's basically describing sex. The fingers touching and the secret alphabets being the unspoken connection during sex.

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  General Comment:I love this song. If you get a chance check out the live version they did at the matrix in san fransisco, amazing.

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  General Comment:I think it's about him being stoned out at the restaurant one of the first people posted, but with a little deeper meaning thrown in there. It talks about how they're closing and how he has to go, but he doesn't want to, he's afraid he'll stumble around outside and feel paranoid when the cars go by. In the chorus he talks about sleeping all night there and warming his mind, where he isn't just talking about staying there but wanting to stay in the state of mind he's in all night long,

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  General Comment:Great song full of imagery.. the 5th line should say "streetlights shed their hollow glow"

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  General Comment:all of the meanings you can think of are correct. it's hardly possible to read too much into poetry. in fact' that's why jim's such a genius: his lyirics can be read in so many ways and mean something different to each listener. if this song had only one meaning (e.g. a dinner),it wouldn't be nothing more than the ramblings of a raveling drunk.
  
  by the way, patti smith covers this song, highly recomendable

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  General Comment:It's about this cafe he used to go to at Venice Beach in California. I looooooveee this song. It's great to listen to while closing the restaurant I work at... But man...Who hasn't ever felt like these lines...
  
  "I light another cigarette
  Learn to forget, learn to forget
  Learn to forget, learn to forget"

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  General Comment:Whatever the symbolism behind this song, I dig it.

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  General Comment:It's a play on meanings, but this song is about leaving a lover. I never researched it, but I'd guess that the "Soul Kitchen" was a real all-night bar/restaurant, where Jim Morrison used to hang out. At about the same time, he probably had an affair going with some chick. In the song, he is reflecting back on a simpler, happier time in his life. However, all good things must come to an end, and we must learn to forget, and move on. The song has symbolic meaning, as well. It's nicely writen.

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