The Doors: The End Meaning

The End Lyrics

This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again

Can you picture what...

1. anonymous

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   Apr 25th 2007 !⃝

   All I KNOW about the son is that the "blue bus" is a reference to the blue buses in Los Angeles. Jim loved L.A. and spent a lot of time there, and went to UCLA. He would have known a lot about the public transit system.
2. anonymous

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   Apr 18th 2007 !⃝

   The End was written, unlike their other songs, in a way were you are forced to listen to Jim’s lyrics. Jim was fascinated with death saying that it was the end to all pain but at the same time your losing your dreams, life plans, and love. I think when he says “Ride the King’s highway/Ride the snake” it means he acknowledges the journey you went on but the outcome was and will forever be there is an end. “Doing a blue rock, on blue bus” was based on desert trips where they did acid. One of the most controversial ending to any of there songs “Father I want to kill you, Mother I want to F**k You” does not mean at all what first come to mind. The father part actually means destroying everything with no meaning, controlling, and restrictive in one's mind, the mother part means embracing everything that is expansive, flowing, and alive in the mind. That’s what I think.
3. anonymous

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   Mar 18th 2007 !⃝

   Morrison studied acting at UCLA. He explored his psyche through the use of psychedelic drugs and he enjoyed being stoned on any drug or substance he could get his hands on.
   
   The reference to the 'Blue Bus' is a reference to a narcotic that came in the form of blue capsuls, called 'blues' or 'blue meanies'. These drugs were also explored in the movie by The Who, Quadraphenia.
   
   The seven mile long snake is referring to his penis. Morrison (as explored in the movie, The Banger Sisters) was reputed to be enormously well-endowed, 7 miles probably means 7 inches.
   
   All of Jim Morrison's songs talk about, drugs, sex, rock & roll, death, war, anal sex, pedophilia and narcissism.
   
   Jim Morrison is an anagram for Mr Mojo Risin which again refers to his rising erection as he defiles a "little girl" in L. A. Woman.
4. anonymous

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   Mar 2nd 2007 !⃝

   The song the end was about not only pain but the start of a new life. Yes morrison witnessed an accident in his childhood, if you read the book carefully you will see that he sees the chief of the navaho's or its the shamen its not to specific but, I think that when he saw the dying indian that indians soul was put into morrisons body and the indian was waitng for the end. Morrison may have often wished for death but there is always a hidden reason, look at all the referrences that have to do with indians, the snake, the shamens etc. Even on his trip on peyote he found a cave in the desert and there he swore he saw the navaho cheif staring into his soul, some say he has even seen the hole tribe's spirits at some of his shows
5. anonymous

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   Feb 15th 2007 !⃝

   The End of life, and all biased opinions on life have an end to them therefore the end was the only comforting fact or friend that Morrison was ever able to understand or relate because their was no doubting it
6. anonymous

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   Feb 4th 2007 !⃝

   its about an excorsium

   This interpretation has been marked as poor. view anyway
7. anonymous

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   Jan 14th 2007 !⃝

   Great song. I think that we'll never know what its really about. There will be a lot of theories, but I think the real meaning died with Jim. God bless him.:(
8. anonymous

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   Jan 5th 2007 !⃝

   The End, And I read this in "The Complete illustrated lyrics" book, means, and I quote directly from the book "essentially it boils down to just this: kill the father means kill all those things in yourself which are instilled in you and are not yourself; they are not your own, they are alien concepts which are not yours, they must die, those are the things that must come to an end. The Psychedelic revolution. Fuck the mother is very basic and means get back to the essence, what is the reality, fuck the mother is very basically mother, mother birth, real, very real, you can touch it.
   
   Precisely what the song is about is "get back to reality and end alien concepts" which to me means, end corruption that society has instilled in your brain, and be born again...free of "the father".
   
   I still don't know what the blue bus means..
9. anonymous

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   Nov 15th 2006 !⃝

   If you read pretty much everything there is to read about jim morrison and the doors, you will know that the native who he saw dying, "leaped into my body". Hence, the dancing on stage. Watch the doors movie. There are flashbacks to his early life. During the trip when they're in the desert. It forshadows his death as well.
   
   I suppose the "snake" is a road. This is around the climax of the song. When he is going to take some sort of action. "ride the snake, to the lake, the ancient lake."
   
   a road that has been taken before...Many times... To the same old place.
10. pinkfloyd

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    Aug 26th 2006 !⃝

    It's about suicide!
    "it hurts to set you free but you'll never follow me"
    "the end of laughter and soft lies the end of nights we tried to die this is the end"
    
    it's blarringly obvious!

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11. anonymous

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    Aug 24th 2006 !⃝

    I have also heard somewhere that he wrote it while on peyote in the desert which would make a lot of sense as he is lyricly trying to describe the bliss/insanity of being so high and so low and feeling things undescribable and seeing things that are unimaginable.
12. anonymous

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    Apr 3rd 2006 !⃝

    I had heard that Jim as a child had witnessed a buss accident when he was a child where several native americans had died and the gruesome image stayed with him for the rest of his life. The buss was blue.
    
    Also when I here him speak of the snake I think of a road. Especially since it's mentioned with other road references. The snake is old, cold black and seven miles long leading to a lake. Also the oldest road in SoCal is El Camino Real AKA The King's Highway and since it linked the original missions it had religious potent.
    
    I'm not saying I found any meaning but just another way of interpreting. Also he could ahve some double meaning here.
13. anonymous

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    Mar 20th 2006 !⃝

    Jim did get the name "the doors" from Aldous Huxley's book
    'the doors of perception. and huxley got the name of his book from the poem by william blake
14. anonymous

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    Mar 6th 2006 !⃝

    I think the beginning of the song is about Jim's relationship with his parents, and how he knew he was never going to come into contact with them ever again. The blue bus was a bus by UCLA that would take kids out to the desert, Jim and his friend Felix used to drop acid and take the bus to the desert to freak out. I think riding the snake is pretty much the same as rolling with the punches of a LSD trip, or even more than that, just rolling with the punches of life. The middle of the song is obviously very oedipal. Jim hated his dad, though he obviously never actually wanted to kill his dad and bone his mom...I think it's pretty much just the cruelest thing one could say to their father. "I want to kill you and then fuck your wife."
    When jim's dad first heard this song he was reading a newspaper, and when it got to the oedipal section, the newspaper started shaking, and when it got to it's climax Jim's father was shaking quite violently. He got up and left the room.
15. anonymous

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    Feb 1st 2006 !⃝

    The name “The Doors” is not taken from "The Doors of Perception" written by Aldous Huxley. It is from a poem by William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", and it says: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite.”
    I think that "The end" is about the end of childhood. Part of childhoods end is off course the Oedipus complex. But there is more to it. The insane children are those who yet haven’t accepted the codes of society. And how do we know something about the time before society’s grasp. We can ride the "king’s highway", which is Freud’s name for the best way to the sub consciousness – to be analyzing dreams. Someone is going on the bus – the adult, and someone is left behind – the child within. I guess.

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