Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Nov 22, 2012 11:26:34 GMT
It is interesting that we have the Green Songbook which is believed to be from 1965/66 in which we see some of Jim's earliest notes and attempts at songs.
The song Break on Through (To the Other Side) may well have evolved from a song/poem called Angel Flight in which some rejected lines from the poem became something else.
Angel Flight
The hiss
of the viper is heard in the land
What's
happening, here
What's going on
What's happening,
hey
What's going on
What are these people
Walking
thru the room
These strange youths I hope it's
over soon
The garden of earthly
delights You're going too far out
Well we're almost there
now I see the stair (now)
Get on your
feet They're friends to greet
We're right on time Just
yours and mine (break)
Get Ready, Ready,
Ready
As we drive on Drive on
Drive on
Drive on
Drive on
I'm lost
It's too late Go
back
Go back Too fast Too fast I'm gone So
long Good bye Don't cry
The night will come &
close your eyes
Work out
fast!
Work out fast Now work out fast
We're so
close
We're so close
Get in line
Collect your
time We have to climb
We have to climb I'll
help you now
I'll help you now I see the
lights
I see the lights We're got to
Keep on
moving
Keep on moving
Get in stride Keep on
moving Till we get inside
Note: After the line "till we get inside" at the same margin and intended to be a part of "Angel Flight" but later edited out are these four lines:
Keep on drivin, till we break thru, break
thru, break on thru to the other side, our bodies
gather & divide.
These lines, in pencil, like the rest of "Angel Flight" are crossed out in blue ink.
####Note that these pages are NOT in Jim Morrison's handwritting. The writing was too faint to photocopy so the pages were transcribed by the perosn who made the copy.
Green Songbook
e also: Break on Through (To the Other Side)
The song Break on Through (To the Other Side) may well have evolved from a song/poem called Angel Flight in which some rejected lines from the poem became something else.
Angel Flight
The hiss
of the viper is heard in the land
What's
happening, here
What's going on
What's happening,
hey
What's going on
What are these people
Walking
thru the room
These strange youths I hope it's
over soon
The garden of earthly
delights You're going too far out
Well we're almost there
now I see the stair (now)
Get on your
feet They're friends to greet
We're right on time Just
yours and mine (break)
Get Ready, Ready,
Ready
As we drive on Drive on
Drive on
Drive on
Drive on
I'm lost
It's too late Go
back
Go back Too fast Too fast I'm gone So
long Good bye Don't cry
The night will come &
close your eyes
Work out
fast!
Work out fast Now work out fast
We're so
close
We're so close
Get in line
Collect your
time We have to climb
We have to climb I'll
help you now
I'll help you now I see the
lights
I see the lights We're got to
Keep on
moving
Keep on moving
Get in stride Keep on
moving Till we get inside
Note: After the line "till we get inside" at the same margin and intended to be a part of "Angel Flight" but later edited out are these four lines:
Keep on drivin, till we break thru, break
thru, break on thru to the other side, our bodies
gather & divide.
These lines, in pencil, like the rest of "Angel Flight" are crossed out in blue ink.
####Note that these pages are NOT in Jim Morrison's handwritting. The writing was too faint to photocopy so the pages were transcribed by the perosn who made the copy.
Green Songbook
e also: Break on Through (To the Other Side)