The Doors: Peace Frog Meaning

Peace Frog Lyrics

There's blood in the streets, it's up to my ankles
She came
Blood in the streets, it's up to my knee
She came
Blood in the streets in the town of Chicago
She came
Blood on the rise, it's following me
Think about the break of day

She...

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   presence76

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   Nov 28th 2005 !⃝

   Yes, the middle section about “Indians scattered” is about the accident Morrison witnessed as a child.
   
   As to the meanings of “blood in the streets in the town of …..”
   
   1)Chicago – this is a reference to the 1968 Democratic National Convention – held in Chicago where there was massive rioting.
   
   2) New Haven – Morrison was arrested on stage here in 1967
   
   There are several poems here. One is the “Blood in the streets……”. The second one is the “she came, she same, she came to town and then she drove away sunlight in her hair” – according to Densmore, the two poems were put together while they were in the studio working on this song. The other poem would be the middle section reference talked about earlier “indians scattered…..”
   
   The general flavor of the song is quite paranoid and dark. “Blood on the rise, it’s following me”. To me, this is probably a reflection of Morrison not being able to handle his massive celebrity. It is brutally ironic as this was what he had wanted and felt he was destined for. This was released in 1970, so by that time his celebrity was massive and for the most part unwanted. From everything I have read – he both loved and loathed his own celebrity. In the end, pardon the pun, it seems like the weight of hatred was too heavy which led to his self destruction – although the seeds of that self destruction were probably sown many years earlier. Very sad.
   
   A great song lyrically – definitely an introspection to Morrison’s mind at the time.
   
   Musically? Well, if you listen to the opening guitar riff and change the station, you should be banished to deafness for the rest of your life.

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   carls

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   Jul 10th 2005 !⃝

   Most of this song, mainly the bloody images ('there's blood in the street it's up to my ankles') came from poetry by Jim Morrison.
   
   The lines 'Indian scattered on dawns highway bleeding/ghosts crowd the young childs fragile eggshell mind' refer to an episode in Morrison's childhood which would have an enormous impact on his life. As a young child, he and his family were driving through the desert when they came across a car accident that had killed several Native Americans. In 'Dawn's Highway' in An American Prayer, he says;
   
   'The souls of those dead Indians... were just running around freaking out, and just leapt into my soul. And they're still in there.'
3. anonymous

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   Nov 25th 2022 !⃝

   "She came to town then she drove away, sunlight in her hair". I think of her as a metaphor for peace;
   a beautiful woman making her presence known as a beautiful woman trying to stop the violence but unable to.
4. anonymous

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   Feb 21st 2021 !⃝

   Might i just say that ive been thinking about it a lot and read about it as well, and by hearing it ive came to a conclusion that -“blood in the love in the terrible summer, bloody red sun of fantastic LA” might be speaking about sharon tate and the manson family murders (it is known that jim and sharon were friends). Her murder occurred on august 69 while the song was released in 1970. Hence perhaps the line? Another terrible event of the loss of a dear friend in the “river of sadness” i truly wonder if thats what he meant or i might have just missed something...
5. anonymous

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   Aug 6th 2018 !⃝

   Jim Morrison was a Shaman and in no way against abortion among other things.. The indians scattered on the highway is reference to Shamanic attachments as in spirits WITH him. Jim was a full hedonist and Pagan how any could miss it is beyond me he flashing one eye eye of Ra/Horus in like almost all photoshoots. He was a Freemason Master of the 2nd veil. Hos KNOWN Occult name in elite circles was Extinguishing Angel Circa 1960s. She came to town reference to dawn is reference to Babylon Rising. Jim was also a hedonist who made it clear he felt this life a prison of flesh. I doubt some could get Jim if he came with instructions. God his 13 album which is the known number of rebellion has Aleister Crowley on the back.... Jim hit the ground running he came into this world and did all he came into do.. So if you just want to cry for someone don't cry for him.

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6. anonymous

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   Aug 6th 2018 !⃝

   Jim Morrison was a Shaman and in no way against abortion among other things.. The indians scattered on the highway is reference to Shamanic attachments as in spirits WITH him. Jim was a full hedonist and Pagan how any could miss it is beyond me he flashing one eye eye of Ra/Horus in like almost all photoshoots. He was a Freemason Master of the 2nd veil. Hos KNOWN Occult name in elite circles was Extinguishing Angel Circa 1960s. She came to town reference to dawn is reference to Babylon Rising. Jim was also a hedonist who made it clear he felt this life a prison of flesh. I doubt some could get Jim if he came with instructions. God his 13 album which is the known number of rebellion has Aleister Crowley on the back.... Jim hit the ground running he came into this world and did all he came into do.. So if you just want to cry for someone don't cry for him.
7. kooljohn176

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   Jan 2nd 2016 !⃝

   The Doors with Jim Morrison's combination of his poem called ''abortion stories'' and his experience by seeing the dead bodies of some of our American Indians that died in a highway accident that he, his parents and grandparents came upon the seen traveling on that highway that haunted him ever since. Saying he absorbed the spirit souls in his ''fragile eggshelled mind'' when at that time he was about 5 years old. Obviously little James [Jim Morrison] was mentally and spiritualy affected by seeing the blood spilled out of these souls on the road of the highway for years later to bring together into his poem to comebine and call it a ''peace frog'' song produced by Paul Rothchild. This combination of Jim's poem and the experience to clash into the Movements when our Nation that was involved in the ''sexual revolution'' that heated up the abortion debate to empower itself to do it's undercover evil, like ''planned parenthood'' of today that wants to use itself in that way also. So here you can say this is a anti-abortion song exposing the evils committed with the blood of the innocence brought upon us. This was happening, along with what I call the ''peace frog'' anti-war revolution movement that was on the run hoping from place to place in the blood that was being spilled in our streets and overseas by the war in Vietnam. Unfortuantly evil won out in this revolution on the overall to be swallowed up by the evilness in the symbolic form of a snake [Satan] that came upon our nation in the form of a ''Mysterious Union'', most likely ever since the civil war to assimilate in the ''Mystery of Babylon The Great The Mother of Harlots and of The Abominations of The Earth''---REVELATION 17:6---''I saw the women drunk with the blood of the martys of JESUS and when I saw her I marlveled with great amazement'' that this song reminds me reading in the 27th book of the Bible. Anotherwords, it is possible that Jim is describing the Harlot of Babylon as a ''Mysteriuos Union marriage of Heaven and Hell'' from his and Revelation point of view that took over his and our country that came down on him, following him everywhere by a sugar coated brilliant symbolic disguise to use the beauty of the ''sunlight in her hair'' to fool and come to drench the land in the blood of the saints and martys who wanted to keep Mother Earth's fingers sacred and clean like the spirit and souls of the Indians that probably wanted for Jim to remember his and his country's past.
8. anonymous

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   Apr 9th 2014 !⃝

   I think it's about vietnam personally because the blood in many cities across the US shows nowhere escaped the horrors of war and the fact that he says the blood is following him means that men from everywhere were dying. Also when it says "the women are criyin rivers of weeping" it means that the widows of dead soldiers were devastated by the death of their husbands or the female family members left behind were devastated by the death of their family member. The terrible summer could suggest the fun of summer is tainted by the war and the bit where it says "she came in town and drove away" could mean that people came to the home town for a funeral.

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9. anonymous

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   Jun 6th 2012 !⃝

   The idea that Morrison slept with a lot of virgins is unlikely. Groupies and any woman that Hung around the LA club scene to the extent to hill up with Morrison probably wasn't a virgin. Could it happen, yes? Frequently or a lot, no. The same is true with a girl who would get back stage when the Doors toured the US.
10. anonymous

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    Jul 21st 2011 !⃝

    "Yeah, the river runs red down the legs of a city."
    
    In my opinion this is an explicit reference to the rupturing of a young woman's hymen. In the book, 'No One Here Gets Out Alive', it is mentioned that he frequently had sex with young women. Presumably the cities and towns he mentions in the song refer to places he has actually been while touring with the Doors. It is a straight forward assumption that he had sex with numerous groupies, who being very young were probably virgins. Doubtless, he over exaggerates the enormous quantity of bleeding he caused, but nevertheless it probably reflects his own personal sexual experiences. Moreover, he also appears to express some remorse for his actions.
    
    "Blood in the streets runs a river of sadness."
    "The women are crying red rivers of weepin"
    
    
    There may be another sexual reference.
    
    "She came"
    
    This line is repeated numerous times throughout the song. It's more debatable as to whether or not one of his sexual encounters actually ejaculated. Although it is clear that women have hymen and that these often do rupture and bleed during sex, there is no scientific basis for the notion that women can ejaculate during sex. They simply do not have a secretory organ that serves this purpose. Nevertheless, it is a common belief that they do, and this suggestion may also have been intentional.
    
    Two other lines worth mentioning.
    
    "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding.
    Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind."
    
    According to the biography, Jim Morrison witnessed a terrible automobile accident when he was still a boy. A truck carrying native American Indians overturned, and he saw them lying on the road bleeding. According to his own account, he felt that the Indian's ghosts were trying to enter his mind. Perhaps feeling some remorse for his sexual misconduct, Morrison suggests that his actions may not be his fault, as spirits possessing him may have provoked his actions.
11. anonymous

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    Jul 20th 2011 !⃝

    "Indians scattered on dawn's highway bleeding. Ghosts crowd the young child's fragile eggshell mind."
    
    I read 'No One Here Gets Out Alive' many years ago. The above lines describe a personal experience Jim had during his youth. He witnessed an accident involving a truck carrying native American Indians. He imagined that their ghosts where trying to enter his mind.
12. beege

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    Apr 26th 2010 !⃝

    jim is refering to the blood rising as a symbol. surprisingly known this song is actually about abortions. jim being the sex addict he was had many many women and a lot of them did have abortions. morrisons lawyer had stacks of papers concerning these.
13. scc123

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    Oct 25th 2009 !⃝

    There is blood everywhere. Where have you been liv'n?
    Just look around. We are the people full to the grave and letting a little light shine through the dark capitalistic pop culture hell bent on pursuing despair.
14. rockfacts

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    Feb 1st 2008 !⃝

    It's about Jim on tour and running into a lot of chicks on the rag. Also, he does mention his encounter as a child with the dead Native Americans on the highway. It's documented a lot.

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15. anonymous

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    Oct 31st 2007 !⃝

    It also ties to riders on the storm. The background behind that song is similar.
16. anonymous

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    Apr 10th 2007 !⃝

    I would like to add to the existing interpretations, the fact that the song seems to have undertones of the first sexual intercourse of a woman, that is, the hymen breaking.
    
    This is particularly evident in the line "blood is the rose of mysterious union"

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