The Doors: People Are Strange Meaning
Song Released: 1967
People Are Strange Lyrics
Faces look ugly when you’re alone
Women seem wicked when you’re unwanted
Streets are uneven when you’re down
When you’re strange
Faces come out of the rain
When you’re strange
No one remembers your...
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I think it is not so important whether it is written on acid or sober or whatever,it can be a feeling to anyone who is having that kind of state of mind,it is the question of existence,or maybe a day someone feels insecure or "small", simply one of very human emotions that for most of us is familiar.
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This is by far one of my fav doors songs....the song has nothing at all to do with drugs....Jim Morrison yeah was heavy into psychedelic...but he never used drug reference in his songs..his song were about love mostly death poetry an his family troubles as a kid....its amazing how little the human brain goes...you see 1 thing about about lyrics an you jump to drug use...so I'm guessing LIGHT MY FIRE is about marijuana??? NO...I mean yeah..."girl we couldn't get much higher"....or maybe they where having a real intense sexual experience......peace love and acid.
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I've always thought it to be about the comedown of drugs and the paranoia that people can experience. Having (unfortunately) experienced similar myself I can say the lyrics sum up the feeling brilliantly.
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This song is written in a depressive mood, which seems to obviously show that Morrison was in fact depressed. But the fact that drugs and depression commonly go hand in hand also seems to make this a song speaking of both. This is just like any of Jimi Hendrix's sad songs, its just sad poetry from a depressed artist who enjoys using drugs too much. And I must say, the line about streets are up even when your down vividly reminds me of a time when I was driving while tripping....this song does make drug references!
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The song is written around the line 'When you're strange, people are strange'. This was the product of realization by Jim, when he spoke with a friend about his depression. He thought of the line, and wrote the song later that evening.
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I think this song may actually have some reference to drugs, i.e. "when your strange" & "roads are uneven when your down" but I also think it is about being with people yet being alone at the same time.
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This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
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This entire song is about tripping on a strong hallucinogen, people look strange when you are tripping, it also refers to faces coming out of the rain, which happens when you trip...it also says streets are uneven, jim is trying to explain how weird humans are, and how you can realize this by tripping on a strong hallucinogen
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