Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Apr 29, 2011 16:28:13 GMT
Tell all the people that you see
Follow me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
Set them free
Follow me down
You tell them they don't have to run
We're gonna pick up everyone
Come out and take me by my hand
Gonna bury all our troubles in the sand, oh yeah
Can't you see the wonder at your feet
Your life's complete
Follow me down
Can't you see me growing, get your guns
The time has come
To follow me down
Follow me across the sea
Where milky babies seem to be
Molded, flowing revelry
With the one that set them free
Tell all the people that you see
It's just me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
Follow me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
We'll be free
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
It's just me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
Follow me
Follow me down
Follow me down You got to follow me down
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
We'll be free
Follow me down
Tell all the people you see
Follow me
You got to follow me down
This song is a very interesting Robby Krieger lyric for no other reason than it was the song that made Jim Morrison insist on individual writing credits on The Soft Parade so that people would not think he wrote this song.
It seems from what has been written that Jim Morrison hated this song, did not want to sing it and did not want to be associated with it.
Morrison objected to the lyric as he said he did not want anyone to get their guns and follow him.
This song seems like nothing more than a filler to an album littered with material searching for a direction and this event simply added to the rift that had opened up between The Doors as a result of the COTL disaster and the Buick affair.
It would be two albums before The Doors once again credited their songs to The Doors and by then it was all over for the band as Morrison had decided to place the Atlantic Ocean between himself and his ex band mates.
Despite Jim's objection to the song he did sing it in several concerts and on the PBS Doors special but it must have been as a sop to the others as support to the single release because I cannot conceive of any occasion when he sang this song by choice.
Musically it is very horn orientated like most of TSP and has a decent Krieger guitar lead and Jim's vocal performance though strained is adequate.
Considering at the time producer Rothchild was engaging in endless takes to come up with the perfect take and emulate Sargeant Pepper it seems odd that songs like TATP along with Do It and Wishful Sinful were included as they are obvious filler material.
It makes a very strong statement that Jim Morrison was not playing the game with Rothchild and the other Doors and perhaps this was his revenge for them not giving his ideas more time.
Robby's Best Song
The Doors unhinged..Soft Parade cause & effect
Follow me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
Set them free
Follow me down
You tell them they don't have to run
We're gonna pick up everyone
Come out and take me by my hand
Gonna bury all our troubles in the sand, oh yeah
Can't you see the wonder at your feet
Your life's complete
Follow me down
Can't you see me growing, get your guns
The time has come
To follow me down
Follow me across the sea
Where milky babies seem to be
Molded, flowing revelry
With the one that set them free
Tell all the people that you see
It's just me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
Follow me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
We'll be free
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
It's just me
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
Follow me
Follow me down
Follow me down You got to follow me down
Follow me down
Tell all the people that you see
We'll be free
Follow me down
Tell all the people you see
Follow me
You got to follow me down
This song is a very interesting Robby Krieger lyric for no other reason than it was the song that made Jim Morrison insist on individual writing credits on The Soft Parade so that people would not think he wrote this song.
It seems from what has been written that Jim Morrison hated this song, did not want to sing it and did not want to be associated with it.
Morrison objected to the lyric as he said he did not want anyone to get their guns and follow him.
This song seems like nothing more than a filler to an album littered with material searching for a direction and this event simply added to the rift that had opened up between The Doors as a result of the COTL disaster and the Buick affair.
It would be two albums before The Doors once again credited their songs to The Doors and by then it was all over for the band as Morrison had decided to place the Atlantic Ocean between himself and his ex band mates.
Despite Jim's objection to the song he did sing it in several concerts and on the PBS Doors special but it must have been as a sop to the others as support to the single release because I cannot conceive of any occasion when he sang this song by choice.
Musically it is very horn orientated like most of TSP and has a decent Krieger guitar lead and Jim's vocal performance though strained is adequate.
Considering at the time producer Rothchild was engaging in endless takes to come up with the perfect take and emulate Sargeant Pepper it seems odd that songs like TATP along with Do It and Wishful Sinful were included as they are obvious filler material.
It makes a very strong statement that Jim Morrison was not playing the game with Rothchild and the other Doors and perhaps this was his revenge for them not giving his ideas more time.
Robby's Best Song
The Doors unhinged..Soft Parade cause & effect
