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I love you the best
Better than all the rest.
I love you the best
Better than all the rest.
That I meet in the summer.
Indian Summer.
That I meet in the summer.
Indian Summer.
I love you the best
Better than all the rest.
Better than all the rest.
I love you the best
Better than all the rest.
That I meet in the summer.
Indian Summer.
That I meet in the summer.
Indian Summer.
I love you the best
Better than all the rest.
Lyrics submitted by kevin
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Morrison Hotel was a great album. I think this song speaks of that moment when something great, whether summer, time spent with a loved one, or a wonderful conversation with a new acquaintance lasts a bit longer than originally expected. This unexpected good fortune often forms fond memories, and I'm guessing Jim was doing some reminiscing on one of these times in his life.
however I disagree with whoever said this was about Pamela Courson, I think it may have been about his high school girlfriend who he allegedly wrote his first few albums about
however i may be wrong
either way, one of my favourite door's songs!
The song is an out take recorded in 1966 wrote in 65, added to the 1970 release Morrison Hotel.
(sometimes referred to as Hard Rock Cafe from the title of the first side
of the LP, whose second side is titled Morrison Hotel)
In Indian summer, 4 th song on side 2, the melody mixed with the tone of Jims hypnotic voice is mystical.
The simplistic metaphoric lyrics leaves room for ones own interpretation.
I’m glade he left us with a personal gift unique to each person, as far as I know he never explained the lyrics.
A popular belief is this piece was inspired as was “Dawn's Highway”, Peace Frog" and "Ghost Song" by a car accident in the desert when Jim Morrison was four years old, and his family was on the way to New Mexico. A family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed. Morrison was quoted as saying: "The souls of the ghosts of those dead Indians... were just running around freaking out, and just leaped into my soul. And they're still in there." This scene is portrayed at the beginning of Oliver Stone's movie The Doors. Morrison believed the incident to be the most formative event in his life and made repeated references to it in the imagery in his songs, poems, and interviews.
My interpretation is simplistic like the lyrics, I believe when Jim sings “That I meet in the summer.
Indian Summer.” He’s simply referring to southern California and the spiritual feeling he got from the desert and it gifts, for example “peyote”.
I don’t discount his Love for Pam, for sure “Queen of the highway” was more a ballad about Pam, it’s the 3 rd song on side 2 “Morrison Hotel”…
Jim (The Lizard King) Morrison is gone, but certainly not forgotten. Nearly 40 tears have passed and his music is still completely relevant.
"Morrison...wrote,with affection and confession,of his love for Pamela Courson..."
"...the watery-raga ballad "Indian summer" -clear expression of need and grateful comfort- was for her from Morrison,who never forgot that the best poetry runs in a straight line from one heart to another..."
I believe that he is apologizing in a way for having many affaires.
"Indian summer",hot and erotic, representing all the women he's slept with.
But he loves her "better than all the rest".
So in the end,it's a beatiful love song,with a plain message: no matter how many people I meet or go with,you're the one I love.
And "rocketsfan4lyfe" is right,it is indeed the first song the band recorded.
Long live The Doors!
this song makes my heart pound harder and my breath faster. it's an utterly amazing, utterly beautiful song. it just goes to show that something really simple can be really beautiful and meaningful.
and, Felixx, it is actually "that i meet in the summer; indian summer" not "that i mean in the summer; indian summer." jim is probably reffering to, that no matter how many women he comes across he only truly loves one.