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Post by ensenada on Jan 29, 2006 14:16:49 GMT
so what the fuck does 5 to 1 (1 in 5) actually mean?
Yeah, c'mon
Love my girl
She lookin' good
C'mon
One more
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive, now
You get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it, baby
If we try
The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!
Yeah!
Your ballroom days are over, baby
Night is drawing near
Shadows of the evening crawl across the years
Ya walk across the floor
with a flower in your hand
Trying to tell me no one understands
Trade in your hours for a handful dimes
Gonna' make it, baby, in our prime
Come together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, aha
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, gotta, get together
Ohhhhhhhh!
Hey, c'mon, honey
You won't have along wait for me, baby
I'll be there in just a little while
You see, I gotta go out in this car
with these people and...
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, got to
Get together, got to
Get together, got to
Take you up in my room and...
Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah
Love my girl
She lookin' good, lookin' real good
Love ya, c'mon
recently i have seen a couple of things it might have meant...
1. for every 1 child you tell off in a class room, you must praise 5 others.
2. 1 in 5 women are let down by their sanitory towels..according to big bill board adverts.
anyone got any more?
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Post by thedoorsmusic on Feb 10, 2006 5:32:14 GMT
The baby boomer generation of the early-mid 40's. For every adult, there are 5 baby boomers. Morrison of course being one of those baby boomers being born in 1943. They got the guns But we got the numbers.  |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Feb 10, 2006 13:02:15 GMT
One of the band once asked Jim what it was about and Jim replied...'thats for me to know and you to find out!'
Morrison like most good lyric writers liked to play with peoples minds with song lyrics!
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Post by cobriaclord on Jul 19, 2006 17:21:35 GMT
I thought it was that in 1968 every one in 5 people smoked grass.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 19, 2006 18:04:36 GMT
Thing about that is it's what other people say it was.....Morrison NEVER revealed to anyone what 5-1 meant to HIM.......and thats cool to me.
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Post by jym on Jul 19, 2006 18:47:12 GMT
I think I can give it away, it's been a couple of years & there's no copyright on ideas. but 5-1 is the number of senses in human beings 5 senses to 1 person. It's actually quite brilliant but not my idea, but it's from Blake also.
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Post by cobriaclord on Jul 20, 2006 15:28:20 GMT
Thing about that is it's what other people say it was.....Morrison NEVER revealed to anyone what 5-1 meant to HIM.......and thats cool to me. i thought he did deny that it was political peace |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 20, 2006 17:53:22 GMT
I don't think Jim liked to be thought of as 'political' in his poetry and songwriting so you are probably right but thats not quite the same as actually explaining what its about. Some opinion favours the ratio between hippy and straight in the 60s which could be a explanation but none of them have come from the author...........I love the ambiguity of the song title....Jim at his most playful.....  |
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Post by cobriaclord on Jul 20, 2006 21:33:52 GMT
Very true. He seems to describes a revolution: But who are the forces that are fighting?
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Post by cobriaclord on Aug 11, 2006 12:40:02 GMT
Another thing I came up with last night
"trade in your hours for a handful of dimes" fits in with Morrison's existentialist philosophy (waste your time amassing nothing)
Also when he shouts "you're all a bunch of fucking slaves" in the live version, he is referencing Nietzche's work when Nietzche talked about the everyday person just as a part of the cowherd. Just getting prodded around by the important people.
Peace
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Apr 13, 2011 14:49:31 GMT
I think I can give it away, it's been a couple of years & there's no copyright on ideas. but 5-1 is the number of senses in human beings 5 senses to 1 person. It's actually quite brilliant but not my idea, but it's from Blake also. Humans don't have 5 senses as there are many more. How many is debatable. Did Jim know this information at the time. Unlikely as 5 was taught pretty much everywhere. Like a lot of things one learns at school it's nonsense. Whether it was what Morrison meant is again debatable as he never revealed to anyone what 5-1 meant. |
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Post by gizmo on Apr 13, 2011 17:29:37 GMT
i heard a lot of different versions of it
as in holding a beer in your hand- 5 fingers to one can, one can in five fingers
one in five ppl who used lsd in that era
as a prophecy that that there would be 5 old ppl to one young one
when you take a trip that one in five is a bad trip
but to be honnest, i'm fine in not knowing what he ment
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Post by casandra on Apr 13, 2011 19:21:06 GMT
I think he was referring to his frustration during "Waiting for the sun" recording sessions: five (Ray, Robby, John, Rothschild and Botnick) against one (Morrison).
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Post by gizmo on Apr 26, 2011 18:36:06 GMT
hey!!!!!!!!!!!!! i never heard that one, and i like it
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Apr 30, 2011 11:27:14 GMT
Bobby Neuwirth hanging around with Jim got to be a good mimic. One night we were recording Five To One and Jim was fucked up, inebriated, and we didn't know what to do. So Bobby did the vocal. And he had it all the way down, The way he was hanging onto the mike and slurring his words. It was hysterical. Jim was watching and he laughed. Yeah he really laughed. I don't know whether he got the vocal that night. Probably the next day.
John Desnmore
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Dec 6, 2011 20:08:02 GMT
MD: I’ve always thought it sounded simplistic to say that everything with you came from jazz. You have the vocabulary and the rhythms of a jazz drummer, but you’re also a rocker, no doubt about it.
John: Yeah, I mean, I’m not playing bebop in the Doors. I can, but it’s not right. Jim would just start with some lyric, sing it a cappella, and we’d kinda go, “Well, it’s a waltz…” and figure out the chords. It would evolve, so I was just intuiting what was programmatic to what the song was saying. If he’s singing, “Five to one, one in five,” it’s real primal. So I’m not going to be playing some hip jazz shit; I’m going be playing primal grunts on the drums. I want to support what the lyrics are saying.
John Densmore
Modern Drummer 2010
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Post by gizmo on Dec 14, 2011 1:33:22 GMT
great answer!!!!!! what could he say more about it? it's a great song with a great beat, used by a lot of other bands-artists(hiphop house etc)
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Nov 17, 2012 11:00:14 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Nov 17, 2012 11:04:16 GMT
I think he was referring to his frustration during "Waiting for the sun" recording sessions: five (Ray, Robby, John, Rothschild and Botnick) against one (Morrison). Excellent idea. |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jan 21, 2023 12:44:04 GMT
This is interesting.
Shows how smart Jim was even in his borrowing for his lyrics.
Where did he find this. Not what your average rock God would be reading
Jim Morrison asserted that the song's lyrics are not political. Part of the song ("Your ballroom days are over, baby/ Night is drawing near/ Shadows of the evening/ crawl across the years"), was seemingly lifted from the 19th-century hymnal and bedtime rhyme "Now the Day Is Over"
("Now the day is over/ Night is drawing nigh/ Shadows of the evening/ Steal across the sky") by Morrison.
Similarly, Morrison quoted the "Christian child's prayer" in a live version of "Soul Kitchen" sung in 1969, and also altered the children's rhyme "Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick" to suit part of his poem "Curses, Invocations" in An American Prayer
("Words dissemble/ Words be quick/ Words resemble walking sticks").
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