Lyrics of Jim Morrison in The End

The first indication that The End bears a strong relationship to the surrealistic literary genre is the actual length of the song (Goldstein, 2003). Morrison, according to Richard Goldstein (2003), was following other musical artists such as Bob Dylan and surrealistic poets in recognizing that the form-follows-function dictum which had guided folk-rock music applied to time as well.

The End is 11 and one-half minutes, hinting of sitar and tabla and raga counterpoint balanced by a blues foundation. Goldstein (2003, p. 1) states that ôthis is Joycean pop, with a stream-of-consciousness lyric in which images are strung together by association. The End builds to a realization of mood rather than a sequence of events."

Surrealism is generally defined as the use of images and incongruous juxtapositions in order to represent unconscious thoughts and drea

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olation of the incest taboo. Instead, they focus on something more analogous to MorrisonÆs desire to strive for a meaningful metamorphosis. For example, although Morrison implies that a ôRoman wilderness of painö bordering on insanity or even death may be associated with an unresolved Oedipal urge, he also insists that transgressions against patriarchal decrees are essentially acts of necessary personal rebellion (Magistrale, 1992). Thus, the song is not only about a putative ôendö but also about the beginning of a new consciousness born out of what Magistrale (1992) calls existential defiance and a willingness to ôtake a chanceö and journey beyond the delusive safety of accepted dogma. Crisafulli (2003) maintains that understanding the lyrics of The End requires recognizing that Morrison approached the work as a performance piece or a script to be interpreted and reinterpreted, with a great deal of room for ad-libbing. The hint of danger that waits at the edge of town is seen as expressing a need to take a chance by going to the edges of the world of man. Once there, ôMorrison moves into the journey motif, expressing the need to seek freedom" (Crisafulli, 2003, p. 4). In discussing the poem, Riordan and Prochnicky (2003)
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