Jim Morrison - An American Prayer (The poem).

[kimmetje1976]

Brilliant:) thnx for sharing:)

[ursel69]

yeah geil

[79mojorisin]

i was in high schoo when this came out. I actually wore the vinyl out! I

[SenorZorrozzz]

Morrison would have liked this for sure. The music complements his words. his words.

[OsamaBinLadenx]

i wrote a thesis in grad school on morrison n blake. brilliant poet. morrison was a disciple of nietszche u can hear alot of where jims ideas were born in thus spake zarathustra.  morrison freed my consciousness n gave me awareness

[welcome2the27CLUB]

It's sad that all the problems Mr.Morrison talks here are still around today

[Doorsthe99]

the best Poet



[aamandapants]

MR MOJO RISON

[TheDeadlyArtz]

Happy Birthday Lizard King, you've changed my life like no other. Live on.

[AmethystMario]

"Do you know we are being led to slaughters placid admirals?" I wonder if this has anything to do with his father, who was an admiral in the Navy.

[NvmBollocks]

It's anomaly how this has terribly stereotypical 70's music, and yet the poetry makes up for it ten-fold.

[CarlSagan0101]

@NvmBollocks

I think the music gives it a cool vibe. It's kind of like how the spy music in the video for "No no man" by Jessie Bernstein made it perfect.

[billc307]

I remember getting this cassette tape in 1980 when I was in the Navy. I listened to it religiously every day and it made me write poetry and drink like a fish. For awhile there I became base Atsugi's Jim Morrison. On the day I left Japan I as usual got drunk the night before and wrote on the side of the barracks wall JIM MORRISON LIVES.

[aornoyboys]

@billc307 STRONG MOMENT MY FRIEND!!!!!!

[threehappypeople]

listening to american prayer always makes me want to smoke some pot.

[1989Muppet]

@threehappypeople Not to amount to more in life than a pot head?

[rolesvill]

@1989Muppet im a pot head, an acid eater. mushroom chomper, does it change a thing?

jim is still better than all of us.

[threehappypeople]

@1989Muppet as one wants or other things along together.

[xavierman232]

That Bass groove made my beard bounce !

[ac1dchr15t]

how is this so underrated.

[diskeywick]

My favorite album of all time hands down. Crazy that the lyrics and music were recorded eight years apart.

[Raketmensch1]

Mmmmmmmm . . . nice.

[LEGIONARIO791]

ooo god!!! I have musical orgams

[katatonaimona]

What a message weaver! I love the way brother Jimmy weaves his true message inbetween seemingly insane lyrics. He has done this since album one.

The indians would never kill the insane white man on horse back mubbling to his self on his way to the gold and society didn't take brother Jimmy serious enough to stop him untill he had allready spread his message.......TOOO COOOL!!! Do you know we are being led to slaughter's.............

[chefjohn777]

Columbus groin got filled with green death ( thats the reference to "clap

")

[EVAmucc5569]

Being an atheist - does not allow to press "like" button. And his great poetry does not allow to press "dislike" button..

Tho I love his musical and poetry works..

[RieAndRub]

oh this is orgasmic,

amazing poetry

amazing guitar

amazing drums

amazing organ

this is the perfect combo no wonder the doors are so popular to this day.

[Katrina3802]

Ron Paul!!

[JamJHolmes]

@Katrina3802 RP rules!

[FuckYouBenjamin]

WHERE ARE THE FEASTS WE ARE PROMISED.

[hockeyboy1821]

@averst69 haha i know right! vedder is like morrison of the 90's

[Jerry4050]

I touch her thigh and death smiled - my favorite part

[ha38bb1]

@Jerry4050 "We got our final vision by clout, Columbus's growing got filled with green death. I touched her thigh and death smiled." Fucking brilliant.

[ClappedWolf]

@ha38bb1 ..final vision by clap..

[andyguitar99]

@ha38bb1

" Groin" not "growing" ha ha.he had the clap

[wangsta231]

he was the messiah!

[JimMorrisonsWidow]

So appropriate to what happened ten years ago today with 9/11. I played this on the day it happened and OMG!!! I was so floored.

[merocket]

Lust For Life...Iggy really liked Morrison's stuff. I want to find the poem that inspired Passenger.

[DamonAlbarnFan]

these poems are brilliant



[mousefight]

3 dislikes only ? .. CHEAP ! .. still muthafukas !

[Scorpius662]

Do you know the warm progress under the Stars? Do you know we exist? Have you forgotten the keys to the Kingdom? Have you been born yet and are you alive?

I think all of us must ask these questions. We of the Sun-Dome and the Night!!!

[MadameAzulDrack]

the king live forever lizard true artist, liberal for his time, misunderstood but great! not the crap they sell today is something called "pop"

[hippytripin65]

The man who posted this for me doesn't realize that this poem doesn't offend me. It is a Dark and Twisted poem much like Poe. I respect Morrison and the thought of someone using this for their own words simply has no style of their own. Morison's words are his own . Sorry Lermo but do not compare yourself to Morrison. He is The One and Only. Furthermore I suggest that you listen to the full version of it to fully appreciate it ..

[stonedimmaculate01]

FOREVER LIVE THE "LIZARD KING"!!!!!

[timgatzke]

robby kreiger rocks this...and jim's poetry is to die for...

[Nathanrjroche]

@timgatzke so funky



[alejandro110]

fuck this is so funkieee haha

[Nathanrjroche]

@alejandro110 yeah it's so funky I can't help smile

[exigency3]

Why is todays music always compared with the past it was and it will always be; Let todays music grow and you grow up too!

[SgtPepper96034]

Rimbaud, Celine, Verlaine, Nietzche,Huxley and of course Blake.

Take a journey to the bright midnight...

[zachcumer]

two people are idiots. vote up if you agree.

[basteku]

fatkid451: you right :) what a shit ... 

[route5937]

U still haunts Jim

[maicon73]

there are 2 little blue men...with a blue hat...

[TheMetallusMaximus]

@maicon73 I see what you did there! : D *High fives*

[defensafinancial]

Are you alive Jim?

We need great golden copulations

[reicheru16]

hockeyboy and aurorarosaspina are talking about lady gaga.. hahaha i would love to see her try and fail to try making sometiing even similar! jim is a legend.. and gaga cant possibably have what it takes to pull this class off! im sorry but im being serious.. jim rules..

[mynameiskay1]

One of, if not possibly, my favourite piece of work by Jim.

[aurorarosaspina]

WHERE IS THE WINE, THE NEW WINE... dying on the vine

.

[FeatherOfTheWindow]

They sell shirts with Jim Morrison on them. I bought one.

Then, I ripped and burnt it.

Had he been alive, he would've LOVED where society went.

[golgathum]

Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths of the ages.

We need great, golden copulations.

Oh great Hope-n-Change, grant we, four more years to form your farts and perfect your lies?

Do you know we are ruled by teleprompter?

Where are the feasts we were promised? Where's the taxpayer dime...the Government wine...dying on vine?

[OcelotPwns]

@golgathum just had to go political with it, didn't you. way to rape a dead man's poems. i don't care where you stand. left or right, that's over the line

[golgathum]

@OcelotPwns Hey dude. If going political on a dead man's political poems constitutes rape then we are all rapists. Or, would you rather I shut up? Shall I turn myself in for reeducation? Viva Che?

[TheTrailerParkKids]

MAN

[Thecookingfreak]

The entire "American Prayer" album is the best album ever,

Simply because the Poëtry and the music are in balance. To bad Jim was already dead by then. Lucky they have many studio recordings of Jim Morison saying his poets, because after all he is one of the greatest poets of the 20th century as far as i am concerned. And its always best to hear the poet say his own poets in his own ritem, Thats why i love this album, Gives an extra dimension.

[nazlihan2010]

Many years after Jim's death, we are still living in the "severed garden".... Why are we so afraid to "invent the new gods"?

[kphillips012]

CLING TO CUNTS AND COCKS OF DISPARE

[kphillips012]

have you been born yet, and are you alive? = genious

[DivinaFuria]

We need great golden copulations :)

[hedvig21]

life........and love.

[JimmyPageMarley1]

Cunts and cocks by despair... I touched her thigh and death smiled...

[TheSuperCrock]

The song that's used for this poem is called "the ghost song". These songs are also included in the "american prayer" album. One at the beginning (2nd in the track list) and one at the end (23rd in the track list). The first one is 02:50min long and it's an intro to "Dawn's Highway". The 2nd is longer (05:16) and it just works as a good memory for this great, poetic and so emotional album;-)

[greenClansman48]

so so wise....

cheers from Cyprus

[gummoboy69]

The music goes so well with the poetry.

[zindo888]

i'm growing a beard

[sandrapuntnl]

@zindo888 me too, but it takes so long ;)

[paragshah2112]

can someone pls tell me what this music track is? i like it the best

[Elisabeth610]

Best Album ever created!!!!!!



[blackleejack]

does someone have this without the music? the original, i mean.....

[911Infowarrior]

@blackleejack I think parts of it may be on "The Lost Paris Tapes". There's some torrent downloads around for it. I used a bunch of tracks from that to create my "Poetry of Jim Morrison" video.

[eb20675]

It's been a while since our friend Jim went in to the light, he is sadly missed on this 3D plane

[VikingThor1]

we live, we die and death not ends it "

[eagleeye2391]

my fav line is "have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom?"

[spump303]

Not to say the poem lacks creativeness, but I think that the reason this piece is so well put is the instrumental background. It makes it so perfect.

[Pxhdxholico]

Goshhhhhhhh Jim is fucking undescribeable. There's just no words to descrimbe his amazingness<3

[avenger86avenger86]

love the tunes with the mix

[hedvig21]

Du you all know that yo are full of shit, yor are on the internet now...

[MATTisAkoala]

did he say clinging to cunts and cocks of despair? and then talk about the clap?

[escolinha80]

Faz este ano 40 anos que não estás cá!

Continuo a ouvir a maravilhosa música que deixaste, no entanto tu é que escolheste o teu destino.

[LTDPoker]

With the knowledge I have now his poems have much more sense to me. Amazing stuff.

[ziggyfreid]

out here in the perimitter there are no stars...out here we is stoned... immaculate

[MrZeus169]

american poetry

[FatMetalFan]

The moths & atheists are doubly divine and dying 

[shipcomesin]

great poem!

[BiGLoS2212]

where is the feast we were promised? wheres the new wine? dying on the vine....so true 

[CookieAlexander]

Is that a bass? Sounds like one.

[ElFrankus]

Paul Rothchild was right: IT IS Cocktail music!

Anyway, I do like it...

[chrisdylantorres]

A master of the mind.. We can only pretend to recognise the understanding he showed. Can we imagine the love, can we imagine the sensuality . 2011 needs Jim. I need Jim Death makes angels of us all. Yeah too true. And people are strange.

[ssil08420]

lol, up2space! thats pretty hilarious! I think Jim would have argued that point though, i think he was beyond religion as point of debate or status...I understand your parallell however; strangely enough; in the sence that many of the more secular or even pagan artists of the sixties did meet unfortunate demises. I believe however these "jews" you speak of...were drugs and alcohol! Which i unfortunately know more about than most of the theologies.

[up2space]

if jim knew what the truth was he would have said it. so goes that theory as far as im concerned. was jm killed by the jews? not because of his dad. because of what jim learned as he went along. one day in his liquored fury he would have said something "anti-semitic" ho ho the jews couldn't allow that to happen. given the course of rock music, i would say that was the #1 concern why all these rocksters were assassinated. cause they were sick & tired of the .... blank blank jews!

[valeriemci1]

The Doors...ah the summer of '67. the following winter and moonlight ride...those were the days. I only have one Doors item left over from all those years....the article from Look magazine about Morrison getting arrested in New Haven, Conn. It's yellowed and wrinkled but then aren't we all.

[ArlenNess2]

wow, god

[hockeyboy1821]

lets see lady gaga do something like this!

[fatkid451]

@hockeyboy1821 i would agree... but if she did... then everyone would think she thought of it... and i would be more pissed her than I already am lol

[aurorarosaspina]

@fatkid451 what r u speaking of?

[fatkid451]

@aurorarosaspina hockeyboy said... "lets see lady gaga do something like this" and though i do not believe she can make something as good... she could and would definitely try.. and people would love it. they would believe it was her that thought of it. and theyd think she was so smart for it. so Im glad with the way things are.. with lady gaga doing her thing and not stealing jim's stuff.

[theperformingguy112]

@fatkid451 Will people stop talkong about Lady gaga. She is a pop artist. A talentless pop artist. she does not deserve to be in the same sentence as Jim.

[VI19667]

@theperformingguy112 So so true...

[MadameAzulDrack]

@hockeyboy1821 I think that even children are a little boy. very silly indeed.

[averst69]

@hockeyboy1821 LOL Lady F@%@ GAGA u mean Gag Gag

Only Eddy Vedder comes close to this stuff

[Bueaify]

@hockeyboy1821 i don't wana see anything from her

[swordofconstantine1]

When Jimmie Morrison says "When the true kings murderers are allowed to roam free a thousand magicians arise in the land" is about JFK's assassination and the majicians are the "Conspiracy Theorists" that can't accept that all 3 bullets came from the 6th floor of the school book depository like when your beliefs about Kennedy's Assassination are that of a school boy...Dan O'Niallain

[capleton48]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM

[TheGenerazionex]

semplicemente unico....auguri jimbo.

[SunshineMorrison2009]

HAPPY BDAY JIM!!!

ILL LOVE UNTIL THE STARS FALL FROM THE SKY!!!!

[sodapophunter]

his voice is so sexy

[SmittyBaGitty]

Awesome. Long live the Lizard King!!

[TheGrownUpAdult]

Rebellious. Intriguing. Enchanting.

[up2space]

this channel rocks

[beregudegu]

ronaldo

[karlhungus21]

CHATTE

[newslang91]

The voice of God.

[NoNoteMusician]

RIP jim morrison my favorite poet.

[richwilk69]

All my life since I was a young lion, I have listened to the doors, collectivly they are the greatest band ever! Jims poetic voice is Death! the others make the doors, people just see morrison, but it was a group thing man!

[jesusonazareth]

it's a good thing the background track is so good, because they use it on like half the songs on this album.

[alexandermccarthy]

Jim, as he would have wanted to be remembered. The Lizard King is dead, and long may he rot.

[JimMorrison1994]

We live, we die and death not ends it.

[up2space]

another irish prick who has to mess with columbus

[up2space]

@up2space face it you irish prick can't stand the fact that columbus who was I talian found this great new world and you scurvy cocksuckers would be starving to death in your potato famine had it not been for Columbus... cling to cunts & cocks... and green death.. hmm.. green death.. hmm.. green death.. hey ho. SUCk MY yes SUCK my ... DICK!

[tentstate]

@up2space you can't find something that was already found...

[up2space]

@tentstate as far as any dumb irishman knew at the time, there was no north american continent. only leprechauns & fairies, a potato & a slice of roast beef. I guess Columbus found it, and you followed in his wake. Hey, did ya know St Patrick was another ginny? Northern Ireland, know what i mean. the scots don't particularly dig you either.

[tentstate]

@up2space wow. nice of you to take a break from reading Mein Kampf to spew some ignorant, racist shit. 15 million people were already here before your little Columbus made it to the states. Though you already knew that.

Must suck to only have a genocidal prick as your only national hero, course then again y'all did follow Hitler, so it makes sense. How'd that work out for ya?

[tentstate]

@up2space and what in the bloody hell does any of this have to do with Morrison?

[up2space]

@tentstate i was just about to say that, i think i forgot the keys to the kingdom,,, i want to go back to forest, i need a great golden copulation. but we are being let to slaughter...listen to the man! i love Jim. i appreciate your reproach. now just between me & you, check out jim's father. he is the man.. check him out about the USS Liberty attack.

[joakimpaz2]

do you know we are ruled by tv and internet ...just ...until we understand it and decide to rule ourselves ?

[TheKenTerry]

@joakimpaz2

Says the person on the internet.

[69michaelskates69]

@TheKenTerry hahaha that made me laugh xD

[ph03n1xamb1t]

@joakimpaz2

EPIC FAIL. LOL

[JimMorrison1994]

one of my favorite doors song

[MrPhunkyT]

fuck all the haters....Jim is nothing shy of a legend and i seriously don't see how anyone can say otherwise.

[728johnny]

Do you know we are ruled by internet?

[2proskaters]

hardflips bitches.

[stepskasvinja]

I am abraksas.jim is dead.only stupid man will die in wrong time.johntrierweiler is dead,too.

[hoppyone]

Oh don't get me wrong ''Johntrierweiler'', I love this album as a whole. I haven't heard this album,unfortunatley, in it's entirety for years but i''ll be at work mouth mouth-guitaring alot of the songs. ''I want roses in my garden bower; dig?''

[stepskasvinja]

jim is stupid man

[johntrierweiler]

@stepskasvinja troll

[X95fernando]

@stepskasvinja You're fuckin stupid you know that, only the good of souls must listen to these wise words of Jim Morrison. So there, FUCK you.

[Lflak3]

fuck ALL the DISLIKES againsT JIM!!!!

[hoppyone]

Jim Morrison wanted this to be recorded without The Doors music, but he died and they later put music to it. I think.

[johntrierweiler]

@hoppyone but the music makes it

[josemotaify]

@hoppyone That´s why this is a masterpiece... It seems like is alive receipting with the other three!

[scrapske]

can sumone plz help find me a link wiht the bass tablature for this song, i need it for a music performance

all help appreciated :D

[scrapske]

can sumone pleez help direct me with a link of the tablature for the bass guitar in this song as im having trouble finding any, coz i gotta play it for a perfromance so much help would be appreciated :D

[johntrierweiler]

@scrapske they had no bass player but ray would use the organ to get the same sound

[CARNAGE33771]

i like the background music the guitar make's the cool sound hail the lizard King

[TheMariiiiiiiiiiiana]

I prefer a feast of friends to the giant family!...

[steephanieenicolee]

where is the organ? and wtf bass

[TheMariiiiiiiiiiiana]

@steephanieenicolee

[MrJewlander]

it's funny how the music is not on the same vibe as morrison

[TheMariiiiiiiiiiiana]

@MrJewlander this was recorded after the man was dead! How may I insult you?

[bluesplayer94]

Man, this is fantastic... His poetry is simply something else... R.I.P. Jim Morrison

[uncas250361]

Fantastico Mticooooooo

[4917314106726598]

not even 2,000 views, are you fucking kidding me? r.i.p jim, im still listening and feeling every word my friend.

[mrmojorisin119]

HAVE YOU FORGOTEN THE LESSON FROM THE ANCIENT WAR WE NEED GREAT GOLDEN COPULATIONS R.I.P JIM YOU ARE THE POET FOR THE WORLD