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By Pages:   1    2    Add Your New Review About The Song The Reviews about When The Music's Over (page 1/ 2) ------ performed by The Doors Before I die I gotta get laid pa! | Reviewer: R. Warwick | 1/13/09 'before i sink into the big sleep .. i want to hear .. the screams of the butterfly' Meaning: Before I die I very much want to see this porno flick. I've no idea what porno flick that could possibly refer to but apparently it meant so much to the man that he released butterflies into the air as some kind of publicity stunt. Doubt this had much to do with the Kafka novel "metamorphosis" as this was nasty - the protagonist waking up as some kind of cockroach, or disgusting thing like that. Money's on the porno flick but just why it could be such an important thing to see before dying I have to admit totally eludes me. actually | Reviewer: Jim Morrison | 12/12/08 If you look at the song, you can see that I had a vague idea for a song where I wanted to connect the human experience, namely what it is to be alive, with the recognition of beauty and that without beauty in the world you are basically dead. The middle section of the song was just me freestyling using some bits and pieces I had for some other numbers but after doing it in the studio, it seemed to stick and so there you have it. -jm An age of greatness | Reviewer: Seth | 12/11/08 I absolutely love this song, i agree with the opinions above, and must say this is musical theater at its peak along with "The End." I rarely go a day without listening to The Doors. I only wish i could've been around to see them live. Save us, Jesus | Reviewer: Anonymous | 9/21/08 Why do you suppose that Jim screamed "Save us Jesus"?. Did he realize that Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God who will judge the world at the end of time? Is this not the climax of the song before it softens and goes back to the chorus? Dark lyrics | Reviewer: Anonymous | 6/24/08 i used to listen to this song when drinking some vodka.it's very spiritual song, but there's somthing dark about it, is simply try to explain the none sens of this world !!! that gives fear to me Awesome | Reviewer: Rick | 12/22/07 This song has a much deeper meaning than just a song. This is a work of art. He's saying that music is the artists only friend since everyone else hates the artist for being better than them. Jim may have died but his spirit lives on through his music. You had to have been there | Reviewer: anon | 10/26/07 Doors songs were heavy on message, ie. the messages of the times. This song and others of Morrison's -- and many many others of the genre/time -- were clearly about the anticipation of the End of mankind's dreams, specifically the prophesied END of Man's reign. Yes, biblical prophesy, astrological prophesy, doomsayers' prophesy; or quite precisely, The Eschaton. Some others who (irregularly) plied similar message were Hendrix, Donovan, the Beatles, King Crimson and an almost endless list. They were cynical times back then. But then Reagan was shot and healed and everything turned rosy for a decade ...or two ...or three ...but The Eschaton won't be belayed. flowerchild music at its best | Reviewer: anonany | 10/26/07 Doors songs were heavy on message, ie. the messages of the times. This song and others of Morrison's -- and many many others of the genre/time -- were clearly about the anticipation of the End of mankind's dreams, specifically the prophesied END of Man's reign. Yes, biblical prophesy, astrological prophesy, doomsayers' prophesy; or quite precisely, The Eschaton. Some others who (irregularly) plied similar message were Hendrix, Donovan, the Beatles, King Crimson and an almost endless list. They were cynical times back then. But then Reagan was shot and healed and everything turned rosy for a decade ...or two ...or three ...but The Eschaton won't be belayed. gloriously sick ! | Reviewer: gundu | 6/13/07 i especially love the lines 'before i sink into the big sleep .. i want to hear .. the screams of the butterfly' .. it is sick .. it is dark .. but its also a big fuck u on the world .. prescient song still burningly relevant 40 years later | Reviewer: mac | 2/27/07 "What have they done to the earth? What have they done to our fair sister? Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her, stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn and tied her with fences and dragged her down..." Morrison wrote this about 1966, the Doors recorded and released it in '67, and in our SUV-crazed, oil-gobbling, war-making nation, our McMansion-10,000-BTU burning houses, nobody, I mean nobody, has better depicted the waste and greed that results in earth-devastation and Iraq wars. Oh, and the music is first rate; Manzarek, Krieger, and Densmore, a trio of instrumentalists, producing superb and variegated backing for Morrison's alternating murmurs and howls. If only Morrison had lived... Add Your New Review About The Song By Pages:   1    2