The Doors - Peace Frog

The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, California by vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. They are considered a controversial and influential band, due mostly to Morrison's cryptic lyrics and unpredictable stage persona. After Morrison's death on July 3, 1971, the remaining members continued as a threesome until disbanding in 1973. Despite a career that barely totaled eight years, The Doors still enjoy a huge cult following as well as status in the mainstream music industry as being hugely influential and original. According to the RIAA, they have sold over 32.5 million albums in the US alone.
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There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles
She came
There's blood in the streets, it's up to my knee
She came
There's blood in the streets in the town of Chicago
She came
Blood on the rise, it's following me
Think about the break of day
She came and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair
She came
Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness
She came
Blood in the streets it's up to my thigh
She came
Yeah the river runs down the legs of the city
She came
The women are crying red rivers of weepin'
She came into town and then she drove away
Sunlight in her hair
Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding
Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind
Blood in the streets in the town of New Haven
Blood stains the roofs and the palm trees of Venice
Blood in my love in the terrible summer
Bloody red sun of phantastic L.A.
Blood streams her brain as they chop off her fingers
Blood will be born in the birth of a nation
Blood is the rose of mysterious union
There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee
Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago
Blood on the rise, it's following me

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[kerrsridge]

Morrison standing there, reminding us about "inflation".... $2.50...wtf...

[ArschTeurer]

That was the first Doors song I heard. I listened to it as a track in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland and since then I have absorbed Doors songs like a sponge.

Still the best fucking band on earth!

[pacnwcomre1]

mcfarcry1966. I think you don't really understand the meaning/projection of this song as a representation of Morrison's unconscious vision of death and revolutionary change in our collective consciousness. Coming into this room and slamming fans as idiots is surely something you can do in another venue. This song is prescient and visionary. I know of no other song lyricist who could come up with this: "Blood will be born in the birth of a nation. Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness."

[pacnwcomre1]

Hey Rasputin....your post is exactly right. This song speaks of future chaos and street riots that will lead us to death. I have a complete description based onb Morrison's word here in Chapter 9 "Blood in the Streets: the Great Fire of Los Angeles") in my recently finished book "Some Are Born to Endless Night: Jim Morrison, Visions of Apocalypse and Transcendence"

[pacnwcomre1]

A poem entitle "Orange County Suite" was the orginal source for this song which had something possibly to do with an abortion related to Pamela Courson.

[420travismc]

@pacnwcomre1 you are 100 percent correct, it was definitely not about abortion as some would have you believe.

[kozmicblues14]

@kerrsridge ahaha yeah really but i think Morrison hotel was a cheap hotel. but a cheap hotel room cost what now 20- 50 bucks a night. its sucks being a teen in the generation. I cant even go to t he movies often its 10 dollars a movie ticket! I wonder if that 2.50 included the "Jim Morrison Specia"l. where you got to stay in the same room with JIm! haha

[perilla1990]

@nana78748 que esta banda tiene más aguante que la 12, la barra de boca

[pacnwcomre1]

Response to: jkgeigr. No, "The Soft Parade" was about the street riots that temporarily occurred on the Sunset Strip that inspired that song. "Peace Frog" was about violent insurrection in the American cities (or specific to LA, if you prefer) that was a song originally inspired by the street riots at the Chicago Democratic convention in August 1968 and a sign post that Morrison thought was the beginning of violent revolution or social rebellion. "Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago.."

[jkgeiger1]

@pacnwcomre1

i think it's actually about a riot on suset strip around 67 or so...