The Doors: Five to One Meaning
Five to One Lyrics
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...
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I read somewhere that the ratio 5:1 was the ratio of Vietnamese Soldiers to American Soldiers. 5:1 was also about the ratio of whites to blacks, non drug users to drug users and young people to old. But it could be just random words. Jim was obviously drunk when recording. You can even hear before Jim starts singing the first verse someone in the studio says "One More" (meaning one more of the bass riff) before Jim was to start.
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I read somewhere that 5 to 1 was the ratio of Vietcong to US soldiers in Vietnam. The line "no one gets out alive" would make no sense if the song weren't about war. Also the line "They got the guns, but we got the numbers" would add to this interpretation because America had the superior weapons, but Vietcong had numbers, and in my opinion, that line wouldn't make sense in other interpretations.
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Just to clear it up, 5:1 was the ratio of the young generation in the 60's to the older generation because of the 'baby boom'. To put it in basic form, the song is about how they [young people then] could take over, because there were so many of them.
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The "5:1" ratio generally associated with Vietnam was the ratio of Vietcong to US soldiers, which makes more sense than the ratio of drafted soldiers by race. However, that's still not what the song is about. Morrison never actually said what it was about, but, if it means anything, he was cledarly drunk when singing it.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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