Jim Morrison Poem Used in New Global Warming Campaign

Rock 103 Memphis ^ | January 31, 2007 | Staff

[cbkaty]

Morrell says, "It's very strange to hear this thing recorded more than 30 years ago that seems so relevant to the environmental challenge we face today."

30 year old poem....compared to millions of years of environmental changes....is a joke...right? The environment has always been in flux....and it was 30 years ago.

Nothing to see here folks...move on down the road...

[ConservativeStatement]

How about the song "Different Drum" with Linda Ronstadt on vocals? The lyrics that humiliate a man who wants to love one woman. Perfect for the DNC.

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/ronstadt-linda/different-drum-1658.html

You and I travel to the beat of a different drum
Oh can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me
Wo-oh

You cry and moan and say it will work out
But honey child I've got my doubts
You can't see the forest for the trees

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

[nmh]

Are you referring to THIS?

"Among the most interesting include his days at UCLA's film school and the repercussions of his indecent exposure charge in Miami, as well as his subsequent impressions of the American justice system. Morrison's comments are immensely thoughtful as he laboriously contemplates answers and reactions in what becomes a dialogue. Both Stevenson and the assignment photographer Kurt Ingham quiz Morrison about his labelmates the Stooges and other burgeoning boundary-pushing bands. In a macabre turn in the conversation, Morrison speaks about the concurrent passings of Canned Heat's Al Wilson, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. While he doesn't go so far as casting stones at his late contemporaries, he does present somewhat philosophical explanations that lead him to discuss his own mortality. Morrison muses that he "hopes [his passing occurs] at about age 120 with a sense of humor and a nice comfortable bed," adding, "I wouldn't want anyone around, I would just want to quietly drift off." In less than nine months, he would do just that. This single-disc volume is available exclusively through the Doors' own website at www.thedoors.com. ~ Lindsay Planer, All Music Guide"

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1594014,00.html

That's all that website had to say.

Care to be more specific.

Having moved on and grown up, I fail to find him insightful.

What is a pity is that he wasted his life. He was a dreamer. He had questions but no answers. His life evolved around, sex, drugs and rock and roll. LISTEN to the lyrics of his popular songs - you'll see that theme.

[nmh]

Isn't that the truth!

[mcg2000]

I'll take the time to type out quotes a little later ... he speaks about television news replacing reality with opinions masked as truths, instant messaging on personal computers in every home, the American south being the region of future great population increases, the graying of all lines between entertainment and news, California becoming part of Mexico, the loss of religion to politics ...

[SouthTexas]

Obviously the only response can be "The End".

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

This isn't anything "new" and "undiscovered." This poem was published in the 1988 book Wilderness: The Lost Poems of Jim Morrison. I don't think "Woman in the Window" was ever intended as doors material. Morrison wrote a lot of stuff that would not fit in the doors genre. For all his wild child posturing, his poetry has a very classical bent to it. I have read and written more poetry than should be allowed. I have also learned by experience that alcohol (or any other substance) and poetry should never be combined. This where his poetry shows its weakness.

[woofie]

Has Jim lost weight?

[snarks_when_bored]

Has Jim lost weight?

By all reports, he's definitely thinned out...

[mcg2000]

Never really understood all the "big fat dead guy in a bathtub" jokes? Here's reportedly the last photo taken of Morrison 2-3 days before he died.

[snarks_when_bored]

Either the aspect ratio of the photo is off or else his face is quite puffy. The iconic lean and hungry androgynous look is absent.

[Alia]

Every single time I hear that song, I wanna segueway into singing "I am Woman Hear Me Roar".

blech. lol.

I prefer "Free Bird", a manly song for manly women! The words and delivery are so much more polite, nurturing, and tender.

[Alia]

Ted Kennedy's song is "Whiskey Song"

His tribute to the after Davos Karioke Bar Scene..

while the DNC coalition is "People Are Strange" sing with me... "faces come out of the rain, in a global warming crisis... ain't it straaa-aaanngee.."

lol!

[ConservativeStatement]

I like your style. :-)

[Tarpon]

They got their poem, they got their chants, but where is the science?

[Alia]

GMTA! :)