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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Apr 14, 2011 9:32:22 GMT
Time to live Time to lie Time to laugh Time to die
Takes it easy, baby Take it as it comes Don't move too fast And you want your love to last Oh, you've been movin' much too fast
Time to walk Time to run Time to aim your arrows At the sun
Takes it easy, baby Take it as it comes Don't move too fast And you want your love to last Oh, you've been movin' much too fast
Go real slow You like it more and more Take it as it comes Specialize in havin' fun
Takes it easy, baby Take it as it comes Don't move too fast And you want your love to last Oh, you've been movin' much too fast Movin' much too fast
This is the song Jim Morrison famously wrote after attending a session of meditation at the request of John Densmore and Robby Krieger. Whether it was written as a tribute or a dismissal of the Eastern Art is debatable. But Morrison never attended a follow up so make your own mind up on that. Ray Manzarek dabbled with it himself but was noted by Densmore in his book to be expecting too much too soon. Ray's pitiful cries of 'no bliss' echo along the ages as the keyboard player is still trapped in the era 40 years later looking for that elusive bliss.
As a song as a whole it is indeed a interesting poppy ditty that reflects the era it was written in and showed Morrison was equally capable of writing about what he observed as well as taking ideas from book and film.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Apr 19, 2011 11:28:39 GMT
'John and I were into Transcendental Meditation that's where we first met Ray and some of my meditation friends were pressuring me to use my influence to help the TM movement. 'Take It As It Comes' just happened to be one of the Maharishi's favourite sayings. Jim wrote the words and I wrote the music.' Robby Krieger
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