The Doors: Moonlight Drive Meaning

Moonlight Drive Lyrics

Let's swim to the moon, uh huh
Let's climb through the tide
Penetrate the evenin' that the
City sleeps to hide
Let's swim out tonight, love
It's our turn to try
Parked beside the ocean
On our moonlight drive

Let's swim to the moon, uh...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 22nd 2009 !⃝

   Come on. Morrison was fascinated with death, the ultimate extreme human experience after birth. He was the Arthur Rimbaud of the 21st century. "Break on Through to the Other Side"—what do you think that means? "Moonlight Drive" has a haunting melody with haunting words & it is my most favorite Doors' song, however, it is extremely dark. It is either a guy trying to convince his girl into a suicide pack to reach the other side OR it is a cold blooded guy taking his "girl" out beyond the bonds of her limits to drown her. The former aspect is my opinion. I don't see Morrison as cold-blooded. I see Morrison as he saw himself—a "Shaman" searching for another existence beyond this one.
2. anonymous

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   Apr 22nd 2009 !⃝

   Come on. Morrison was fascinated with death, the ultimate extreme human experience after birth. He was the Arthur Rimbaud of the 21st century. "Break on Through to the Other Side"—what do you think that means? "Moonlight Drive" has a haunting melody with haunting words & it is my most favorite Doors' song, however, it is extremely dark. It is either a guy trying to convince his girl into a suicide pack to reach the other side OR it is a cold blooded guy taking his "girl" out beyond the bonds of her limits to drown her. The former aspect is my opinion. I don't see Morrison as cold-blooded. I see Morrison as he saw himself—a "Shaman" searching for another existence beyond this one.
3. 70s_girl

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   Jan 16th 2009 !⃝

   sounds like it's about suicide. it's like he's trying to convince the one he's with to drown with him. but it's like he's accepted death, that's why the phrasing sounds so serine(sp?); to go on a "moonlight drive" to just let the ocean take you away.
4. anonymous

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   Feb 29th 2008 !⃝

   Whoever wrote that second "interpretation" is an idiot. Sorry to be so harsh. But this was one of the first songs Jim wrote and was in fact the song that he sang to Ray...making Ray realize that Jim was was gonna be going places. Pam Courson didn't come into the picture until much later.
   
   -Lizzie
5. anonymous

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   Oct 1st 2007 !⃝

   The first interpretation is basically what the song means. To the second comment you are incorrect Jim didn't even know Pam when this song was written, he met her after the band was formed and this song was written before that. It's the song that made Ray and Jim decide to start a band together.
6. anonymous

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   Mar 2nd 2007 !⃝

   NO the song is obviously about his girl Pam

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway

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