5075 "When the Music's Over" by The Doors... Song Lyrics Analysis!

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Philosopher Stefan Molyneux unpacks the truly demonic lyrics behind The Doors hit "When the Music's Over"

Jim Morrison:

When the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Yeah

When the music's over
When the music's over
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights

When the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end

Cancel my subscription to the Resurrection
Send my credentials to the House of Detention
I got some friends inside

The face in the mirror won't stop
The girl in the window won't drop
A feast of friends, "Alive!" she cried
Waiting for me outside

Before I sink into the big sleep
I want to hear
I want to hear
The scream of the butterfly

Come back, baby
Back into my arm
We're gettin' tired of hangin' around
Waitin' around with our heads to the ground
I hear a very gentle sound

Very near yet, very far
Very soft, yeah, very clear
Come today, come today

What have they done to the earth, yeah?
What have they done to our fair sister?
Ravaged and plundered and ripped her and bit her
Stuck her with knives in the side of the dawn
And tied her with fences and dragged her down

I hear a very gentle sound
With your ear down to the ground
We want the world and we want it
We want the world and we want it
Now
Now?
Now!
Persian night babe
See the light, babe
Save us
Jesus
Save us

So when the music's over
When the music's over, yeah
When the music's over
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights
Turn out the lights

When the music is your special friend
Dance on fire as it intends
Music is your only friend
Until the end
Until the end
Until the end

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0:00.0	I have a topic I would like to talk about, and that topic is lyrics.
0:08.8	Now, if I were the devil, then what I would do is I would give people the gift of music,
0:19.0	of lyrical, sorry, of melody composition, and give them the gift of music, and then I
0:23.8	would inspire them with really evil lyrics. And that way people would be drawn in by the power of
0:32.9	the music, and then what they would do is they would listen to the music, and repeatedly in their
0:39.5	minds, like a chant would be invoked the evil of the lyrics. So I've done this once before,
0:50.6	with the side one of the wall by Pink Floyd, well mostly by Roger Waters, but also to some degree,
0:59.4	by Pink Floyd. So if you are a fan of the doors, you will appreciate this. If you're not,
1:09.0	it's worth listening to the music, not the greatest singer, but an incredibly passionate singer,
1:15.8	man, you want to hear some amazing blues, growling intensity, five to one, is really, really powerful.
1:24.6	So I'm going to give you an example of what I mean. So the doors had some astoundingly good
1:31.9	melodies. It's always been kind of depressing, angry, embittered, odd, strange, evil, caliope,
1:38.7	harmonica, and the sound that it occounds tinkly toes make when he steps up the xylophone of
1:44.6	your spine to steal your brain or something like that. But I wanted to talk about this song,
1:50.9	when the music's over. Now the song title, and I guess theme came from when they played the whiskey.
1:59.4	That was one of the first clubs that they had a regular gig at, and they played the whiskey and
2:06.8	very few people came to see them. There was one legend during night when they jammed with Van
2:10.1	Morrison, but Union rules forbade anyone to record it. So unfortunately that's been lost to the
2:15.0	deaths of time. But when the music's over was what the bar owner said to the bartender,
2:26.1	hey man, when the music's over just turned out the lights. And this became a song. Now they used
2:30.7	to work on these songs live with people. And then what happened was they ended up in the studio
2:38.2	where things were obviously more sterile than arid. So there's a lot of chanting and repetition.
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