Babylon
Invocation of dark forces
It is a theatrical performance nonetheless
It's not a political rally
It just seems like you have to be in a
Constant state of revolution or you're dead
You know, so, you know, there always has to be a revolution
It has to be a constant thing
Not something that's gonna change things and then that's it
You know, the revolution solved everything
It has to be every day
The right of anyone with a personal viewpoint to state their ideas
In public and receive a hearing without legal pressure being put on
The origin of freedom of speech and which goes
Side by side with the origin of drama, actually
If you couldn't understand the words
There'd still be everything there to react to
Climate of hysteria
Well, I was saying rock was dead years ago
Close contact with an audience
Dark theater
Subconsciously I was trying to get across in that
Concert that I was trying to reduce it to absurdity
Come to our house, say the mandarino
And tell us why it is you stray so near
And why you run way fast and come back slow
In the middle of the sun, in the middle of the day
When even an idiot goes indoors
Kind of sulking in this field and there's
A sword stuck in the ground in front of him
And then over to the left is scenes from the, uh
Some kind of, uh
You know, it's a war scene and people
In sewers and it's chaos and all that
You know, ghosts and shades and it's a beautiful mural
Any time we try to break out of that bound of passivity
Our actions usually seem awkward and obscene
Like an invalid that's forgotten how to walk
There's a belief by the children of man which states all will be well
Search on man, calm savior
Veteran of wars, incalculable greed
Search on man, calm savior
God speed and forgive you
Morning star, fragrant meadow person girl
It's a beach town with the atmosphere of a dying arcade
Climate of hysteria
People with long hair and smoking dope and talking
About love and peace and anti-war sentiments
I would say it would be an anachronism for the younger people
A reaction stemming out of that, you know, fear of something unknown
Well, at one time everyone, the whole community
I think people will always have a desire to huddle together
I meant it ironically
Amazing
If there was a millionaire heiress and she said
"Okay, I'm gonna be the patroness of a band
This is gonna be, and this band is gonna be, I'm
Gonna set 'em up in a mansion up in the mountains
They're gonna have everything they've always wanted
They're not gonna have any economic hassles
They're not gonna have to fuck with any of these people
Just make their music"
You know what you'd get? A lot of shit
Jim Morrison, singer
I like jazz
Smoking dope and talking about love and peace
I don't, actually don't know a thing about jazz
I think people enjoy being in crowds
It gives them a feeling of power and security in a strange way
They like to rub up against hundreds
Of other people that are like them
It kind of reinforces their truth
Okay, here come, suppose this band has been rehearsing
For a year in the Himalayas in this mansion
You know, all with sports cars and everything they want
You know, and then you drop 'em down in
The Fillmore in some unsuspecting club
And they walk out there
Everyone's, it's not gonna be a visitation of the gods
It's gonna be like, "Who are these cats?"
If you drink hard liquor when you're recording
Pretty soon you're so out of it you can't do anything anymore
It's a feeling of powerlessness and
Helplessness people have in the face of reality
That they have no real control over events or their own lives
That something is controlling it
But the closest they ever get to it is on a television set
Basically what, uh, they, they refuse to listen to any testimony