An American Prayer

never heard it , isnt it his poetry.

yeah its the poetry mixed with some music, its fantastic.

i only listen to comptons most wanted. all other MuSic SuxxXXs! )))) :0

Jim Morrison was a true musical genius

not my cup of tea, got a bit too wasted for me to appreciate it

The Doors were my first favorite Rock band..Kudos to Jim!

He was one of the greatest.

never heard it,u have any link to download it ?

the doors were amazing - jim morrison wouldnt have been fartdust without the other three. fuckin one in a billion when 4 people made for each other get together like that.

YOU CANNOT PETITION THE BOARD WITH PRAYER!

Maybe not without Manzarek, but IMO would have done the same without Krieger and Densmore.

put down your crackpipe, smoke a doobie and listen to their first record with headphones ... youre wrong dood. those two were just as unique and indespensible to the doors sound as jim morrison or ray manzarek

its cool, ive been wrong before too!

;)

mr mojo rox

an american prayer is a cool album dude not heard it for ages

Is this another Josh Groban type of music?

American Prayer was released several years after Jim Morrison died in Paris. It is unlike any other Doors album.



It is both beautiful and haunting, lucid and psychedelic, and full of love and pain. A fitting final testament to Jim Morrison...



Some lyrics/poems:

CURSES, INVOCATIONS

Curses, Invocations
Weird bate-headed mongrels
I keep expecting one of you to rise
Large buxom obese queen
Garden hogs and cunt veterans
Quaint cabbage saints
Shit hoarders and individualists
Drag strip officials
Tight lipped losers and
Lustful fuck salesman
My militant dandies
All strange orders of monsters
Hot on the tail of the woodvine
We welcome you to our procession

Here come the Comedians
look at them smile
Watch them dance an Indian mile
Look at them gesture
How aplomb
So to gesture everyone
Words dissemble
Words be quick
Words resemble walking sticks
Plant them they will grow
Watch them waver so
I'll always be a word man
Better then a bird man

AN AMERICAN PRAYER -
HOUR FOR MAGIC * FREEDOM EXISTS * A FEAST OF FRIENDS

Do you know the warm progress
under the stars?
Do you know we exist?
Have you forgotten the keys
to the kingdom

Have you been borne yet; are you alive?
Let's reinvent the gods, all the myths
of the ages
Celebrate symbols from deep elder forests
[Have you forgotten the lessons
of the ancient war]
We need great golden copulations

The fathers are cackling in trees
of the forest
Our mother is dead in the sea

Do you know we are being led to
slaughters by placid admirals;
that fat slow generals are getting
obscene on young blood
Do you know we are ruled by T.V.

The moon is dry blood beast
Guerrilla bands are rolling numbers
in the next block of green vine
amassing for warfare on innocent
herdsman who are just dying

O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art; perfect our lives

The moths; atheists are doubly divine; dying
We live, we die; death not ends it
Journey we more into the
Nightmare

Cling to life
Our passion'd flower
Cling to Cunts; cocks
of despair
We got our final vision
by clap
Columbus groin got
filled w/green death
(I touched her thigh; death smiled)

We have assembled inside this ancient; insane theatre
To propagate our lust for life;
flee the swarming wisdomof the streets
The barns are stormed
The windows kept; only one of all the rest
To dance; save us
With the divine mockery
of words

Music inflames temperament
(When the true King's murderers
are allowed to roam free
a 1000 Magicians arise in the land)

Where are the feasts
we are promised
Where is the wine
The New Wine
(dying on the vine)
resident mockery
give us an hour for magic

We of the purple glove
We of the starling flight; velvet hour
We of arabic pleasures's breed
We of sundome; the night
Give us creed
To believe
A night of lust
Give us trust in
The Night
Give us color
hundred hues
a rich mandala
for me; for you; for your silky
pillowed house
a head, wisdom; a bed

Troubled decree
Resident mockery
has claimed thee
We used to believe
in the good old days
We still receive
In little ways
The things of Kindness; unsporting brow
Forget; allow

Did you know freedom exists
in school books
Did you know madmen are
running our prisons
within a jail, within a gaol
within a white free protestant
maelstrom

We're perched headlong
on the edge of boredom
We're reaching for death
on the end of a candle
We're trying for something
that's already found us

Wow, I'm sick of doubt
Live in the light of certain south
Cruel bindings
The sevants have the power
dog-men; their mean women
pulling poor blankets over
our sailors

I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the T.V.
Tower, I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?
Royal babies, rubies
must now replace aborted
Strangers in the mud

These mutants, blood-meal
for the plant that's plowed
they are waiting to take us into
the severed garden
Do you know how pale; wanton thrillful
comes death on a stranger hour
unannounced, unplanned for
like a scaring over-friendly guest you've
brought to bed

Death makes angels of us all; gives us wings
where we had shoulders
smooth as raven's claws

No more money, no more fancy dress
This other kingdom seems by far the best
until its other jaw reveals incest;
loose obedience to a vegetable law
I will not go
Prefer a feast of friends
To the Giant family

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ADG Webmaster

Glad you think so but you're wrong. Sure Krieger had a unique sound but without Morrison we would have never heard of him. Matter of fact none of them would have done anything without Morrison and they havent done anything since he died except ride his coat tail by putting out a dozen greatest hits albums since 1973. Seems every few years when they get low on cash they throw together another greatest hits album. Talent wise they were a step above studio musicians. Morrison was The Doors, plain and simple.

i agree they def would have been nowhere without morrison. they def made me want to vomit when they toured with - who the fuck was it? guy from the cult?

krieger had a unique sound! yea! he was a badass! so was densmore - studio musicians? please - there are a million studio musicians who can play better than krieger or densmore or manzarek or anyone for that matter but its creativity and "click" that made them the doors

anyone who likes american prayer - recommended reading - arthur rimbaud - morrison was heavily influenced by rimbaud.

YOU CANNOT PETITION THE LORD WITH PRAYER!!!!

You might digg this Batts: http://www.soundboard.com/sb/jimmorrison.aspx

YOu can never replace the lead signer of any band, Inxs tried it and fucked it, but i have to say, i watched Ian Astbury play with Ray and robbie and i thought he was fantastic, not as good as Jim, but pretty fucking good.

The man was a fucking genius!

And yes, he wouldn't be what he was without the other doors just like they're nothing much without him........ or his words.

Yep I bought the cd some 10 years ago, still have it, still love it.

One of my all time favorite Doors tunes...and yes, it was chemistry:

CRYSTAL SHIP

Before you slip into unconsciousness
I'd like to have another kiss
Another flashing chance at bliss
Another kiss, another kiss

The days are bright and filled with pain
Enclose me in your gentle rain
The time you ran was too insane
We'll meet again, we'll meet again

Oh tell me where your freedom lies
The streets are fields that never die
Deliver me from reasons why
You'd rather cry, I'd rather fly

The crystal ship is being filled
A thousand girls, a thousand thrills
A million ways to spend your time
When we get back, I'll drop a line

ADG Webmaster

Used to listen to that album a real lot. haven't thought of it in years. i'll give it a listen again.

I was just rattling your cage dude. Seriously I love The Doors. 25 years ago I was totally into them and there were plenty of times of smoking weed and listening the The End in the dark at 3AM.

Of course discussion of Jim Morrison is complete without reference to what most would agree was his signature song.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

- Jim Morrison

ADG Webmaster

2hp

Good thing you quit...

The Morrison lines I quoted to my wife during my proposal to her:

I found an island in your arms
A country in your eyes

ADG Webmaster

2hp

The BEST thing that ever happened in my life...

ADG Webmaster

2hp

Love is real, real is love
Love is feeling, feeling love
Love is wanting to be loved

Love is touch, touch is love
Love is reaching, reaching love
Love is asking to be loved

Love is you
You and me
Love is knowing
we can be

Love is free, free is love
Love is living, living love
Love is needed to be loved

- John Lennon

ADG Webmaster

Never heard, sorry

you have it completely backwards, but that's ok. Jim's charisma, insane lyrics and voice made the Doors - they would have never been shit without him. I love the Doors but musically even I have to admit they get extremely cheesy at times - they went off on way too many jazz / polka tangents, lol - they were not stretching musical boundaries (most of the time) by any means