Steve Taylor - Jim Morrison's Grave

This is the video for Steve Taylor's classic song, "Jim Morrison's Grave." This video landed on MTV's "120 Minutes" back in 1987.

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Music

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• Steve
• Taylor
• Jim
• Morrison
• Christian
• Alternative

[bannerman06]

Nothing to add except I'm glad people are still viewing and commenting!

[jookypirate]

Have not heard this song for 20 years. Had the i predict 1990 on a cassette tape in college. My favorite steve taylor album. Never knew there was a music video to this. You tube comes through again!

[styxshogun]

Great song, great lyrics, but spoken to generation without ears. Steve Taylor was/is the ice breaker of the frozen chosen.

[DoorsAreOpen13]

I love Jim Morrison...

[trentholt]

"How does the seed get strangled in the heart of a man?"

[josette4231]

I went to Jimbo's grave in Paris. I had to ask the people in French where is his grave. It is a good thing that i know French.I had in laws in Germany. That is how i got to France.

[LambadLambadLambda]

@trentholt

It's about a relationship with an invisible man living in the sky that you would have no idea about if it weren't for your religion.

[doorswhofan]

Can anyone post the full lyrics for this song? I have tried again and again to decipher them, but can only get a few lines.

[psbauman]

I still appreciate this album for what it was... Steve's image and lyrics were quite iconoclastic at the time for a christian artist and even looking back on a song like this where he actually pays homage to Jim without preaching so much as expressing a sort of harrowing epiphany; this was something special. I'm an atheist now, but I really do look back fondly on this album and the artist. He and Larry Norman still command my respect to this day.

[oldorchard1000]

the only thing i wonder is why did they leave his body in paris

[ManFromAUNTIE]

used to listen to this on cassette at work and at high school. loved it when it was on mtv.

[DBFullerton]

Wow, I have missed this so much. Steve Taylor was always my way to touch religion in a positive light. I loved him so much. And, again, this is one of his best works. Too bad it isn't in higher resolution. [Can someone get a better copy on here?]

[deadmansgulf]

"Jim Morrison's Grave" asks the age-old question: Does artistry justify being a weasel? The last line of the song is, "The music covers like an evening mist/Like a watch still ticking on a dead man's wrist." Morrison left the world some intriguing music. As far as I'm concerned, that's not enough. -Steve Taylor