The Doors -The soft parade (40th anniversary edition) [with lyrics]

[@newslang91]

"This is the best part of the trip, this is the trip, the best part, and I really like." PROUD TO BE A PART OF THIS NUMBER ! I'm french, from Paris, and each year, on July 3rd, I go to the pere lachaise, I listen to this song, and when he sing "all our lives we sweat and save, building for a shallow grave" I know that there is something else, somehow to defend this place, because the soul of Jim ain't dead, and it still runs in our veins, and sleeps in our heart.

[@samuelcottray6724]

J' ai fumé un joint sur sa tombe étant jeune et maintenant il me rends visite quand ça lui prend, comme quoi la vie parfois est surprenante 😜🐺🐺🐺🐺🔥🔥🔥😈😈😈😈🐷🐷❤️🥳🥳

[@dynjarren8355]

The new poem at the beginning is brilliant! Why did they cut that out? They waited 50 years to release it? I could have died and not heard it! Ridiculous!

[@Ninja_S1000RR-R]

Lol it’s criminal!

[@P8P89]

This song is too epic to explain. Truly a masterpiece.

[@eugenegd2112]

And conceals what your eyes fight to explain.

[@gregoryargentieri5147]

The

[@lisamoore1383]

The Soft Parade

[@chuckmaurer6902]

It takes your mind into a thousand different directions at the same time and blows it away with one kiss of Jim Morrison's lyrics

[@finight9]

It's like the official end of the 60s spirit.

[@BEpally4life]

there will NEVER be another like jim...all i can say is when you truly listen to the lyrics its amazing

[@chuckmaurer6902]

I love everything about the Doors, the music, the poetry, the wildness in Jim's voice when he sings. Thanks in part to my father being a young baby boomer at the time the Doors made it to the radio. The Doors are just as much a musical staple in my house as they were in the house I grew up in. As a matter of fact my youngest daughter was doing a thesis in history class last marking period and she is an avid history buff but what's more is she has incredible knowledge of the music of yesteryear as I like to call it, she loves everything from what we call Classic Rock now to Motown to the beginnings of heavy metal and of course the doors. My daughter picked the doors as her topic of her thesis. Let me tell you something that girl did not need my help on anything when it came to doing the thesis I didn't even need to fill in the blanks. The girls got a 100% A+ on her task and I could have been more proud of that girl when she brought that home. incidentally the other day I was off from work and the doors came on my Roku channel starring Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison. They could have picked a better actor who portrayed Jim Morrison in my opinion. the movie came out in 1991 what's the year I graduated high school I'm 46 years old now my daughter is 18 about to graduate high school and that was the first time she ever saw the movie which was two days ago. She did not move from the TV for 2 hours and 15 minutes, just like me LOL. Oliver Stone is a hell of a director and did an excellent job on that movie, since I've seen the movie a billion times and I will watch a 10 billion more times, I sat and watched my daughter watch the movie and just like me the very first time I watched the movie I was taken in by it and took me on an emotional ride for the entire length of the film as it did my daughter. I apologize for ranting on and some people will disagree with me about the movie but I thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed it answer to my daughter. I am still in the extreme fan an avid listener of the musical Genius of the doors and Jim Morrison.

[@nixon9346]

Ray manzarek said the movie sucks

[@chuckmaurer6902]

@@nixon9346 😂😂😂😂

[@samuelcottray6724]

😂😂tu pars loin dans tes délires, j' adore,les portes sont faites pour être ouvertes, certainement qu'ils y en a que les clefs sont plus difficiles à trouver, mais bon avec un bon serrurier, ça peut le faire 😜😁🐺🐺🐺🐺🔥🔥🔥🔥😈😈😈🐷🐷🥳🥳🥳🥳😍😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️

[@electricwarrior27]

This version is the best. I got into The Doors when I was 17, they released 2 years earlier these remasters with full versions and unheard harmonies, guitar and organ parts that were not used on the original releases and those were the versions I got used to eventually, as those were the CDs I bought. I don't get why they didn't include those versions on the newly and recently remastered versions of the albums. I guess they tried to stick to the original releases, but DAMN these versions are much better to me personally.

[@wouldnthe]

I love Jim Morrison's lyrics. I feel like he was a space cadet who wrote a lot of his shit down, he had access to a great band.

[@r.dbergman4034]

"We're Lions in the Night!" This music is pure conceptual bliss. A revolution in and of itself. Viva La Doors!

[@SwingStu]

The poem at the beginning should be made the global anthem for poetry.

[@fearsomename2745]

This is the best part. I really like. Jim was a lyrical genius.

[@meireviana-poesiaemperform8941]

Obrigada por esse presente precioso: a poesia de Jim Morrison!

[@deanbrandt2748]

Shit - what a loss. He was a beautiful genius. There will never be another another Jim Morrison. R.I.P. ☮️

[@freeeedommmm]

The whole point is to climb to a higher realm, a higher spiritual world and then leave this world behind. And that's exactly what he did!

[@thomaslehrer1324]

Don't forget the other poetic masterpiece of Jim's, 'Celebration Of The Lizard'. The band jams at the end of this version of 'The Soft Parade' much longer before the fade. Love the opening opus, too.

[@geoffbeck9394]

luv it! the monk bought lunch!!..absolutely brillant!!!!!

[@dodak7478]

The poem name is "I am troubled immeasurably"... I am troubled immeasurably by your eyes I am struck by the feather Of your soft reply The sound of glass speaks quick disdain And conceals what your eyes fight to explain... That's the words of the poem.. :)

[@SimplyLimbo]

nice one: 'And conceals what your eyes fight to explain''

[@JennyJesse7874]

Dodo mhr beautiful

[@Jakethesnake689]

I got into the doors at the age of 16 and still listen to them every day. The West is the best

[@Nobody-br1rq]

Jake S dope so did I

[@superfungus947]

@@Nobody-br1rq actually same here. 16 is when everyone gets into the doors

[@less_than_zero05]

I'm 15 now and I guess I'll listen to them every day too. «Music is your only friend until the end.»

[@raybradhausen]

This is a wonderful piece. It employs a lot of cool vocal, lyrical, and musical devices.

[@jackball44]

Decades before their time...my all time fav band & 1 of my fav. songs of theirs....proud to part of this number....

[@tonybrick2095]

Amazing collection of pictures. Thank you

[@reportedehoje]

the doors was the greatest band in the whole world. Jim morrison was a powerful singer and poet, ray was a great keyboardist, robbie created very nice and hipnotic solos and john was an awesome drummer

[@joeagger]

2:05-2:13 is such a stunning transition, never fails to blow me away

[@sneezepal]

Best version of this, my favorite track from the Soft Parade. Thanks for posting!

[@SuperAuset]

Outstanding collage of pictures! Thanks to a Doors fans from many, many years. blessings

[@Tacomadome24]

This is a piece of awesomeness for lack of a better word, that will last forever I hope!

[@celebrant9]

"This is the best part of the trip, this is the trip, the best part that I really like." Α ρε Τζιμάρα, με δυο κουβέντες τα είπες όλα.... "Proud to be a part of this number", Morrison's best lyrics lie in this song. To me, it always shows his perception of life in the western society. To me, it is deeply philosophical. I just love it although it makes me incredibly sad...Thanks, Doors.

[@darkstar2117]

"all our lives we sweat and save building for a shallow grave"...love it.

[@alkohollic2613]

Love this edition with the add on in the beginning...🙏🤲👌🤞🤘🤙masterpiece

[@goodoldrebel8]

I feel like a part of me died when Ray passed on to the "Soft Parade" yesterday. It's hard to accept that Ray is gone. Ray was such a good person. I wish I would have got to see him and Robbie tour recently. :I hope I can see Robbie play. As a kid from the 60's its a sad day to know Ray is not here anymore. Welcome to the Soft Parade All our lives we sweat and save Building for a shallow grave Must be something else we say Somehow to defend this place Everything must be this way

[@darinlambie8695]

ME TO MAN WAS BORN IN 63 FUCKEN EH

[@freeeedommmm]

The whole point is to climb to a higher realm, a higher spiritual world and then leave this world behind. And that's exactly what he (Jim) did!

[@carolinarodrigueszz]

Fuckin awesome, man! Jim's poem in the beggining is really tenderly...

[@mensneds]

Can you give me sanctuary? I must find a place to hide A place for me to hide Can you find me soft asylum? I can't make it any more The man is at the door

[@ms3pugz]

great video....I agree-what a masterpiece...I like to listen to the "petition the lord with prayer" part everyday....beautiful words....beautiful Jim....

[@celebrant9]

Thank you for your kind words. This band still inspires and unites people across the world. Peace.

[@sonictype]

this is pure genius, simple as that

[@devot12]

One of the first Great Organist in Rock music is now departed from us. He will now go meet the first King of Lizard Rock/poet Jim Morrison in a reunion since his passing away.It will make the heavens shake. Rest in Peace Ray. :) :) You will be missed.

[@myparentsareplastic]

I love the intro.

[@ledzeppelin27]

what a collection of photos too, if you made this. great job and thanks

[@xaviervilanovamunich2131]

La intro, és brutal. L'escolto en bucle. Té aquell punt de tristesa i nostàlgia màgica.

[@radiez87]

Thanks for uploading this version, i had it on a record and cant find it. Love it. ❤️

[@garyonderisin8338]

thanks for this material. awesome! r.i.p. jim morrison and ray manzarek.

[@RobertTenoriorockmusic]

Just the perfect trip!

[@ThePunisher2346]

Robert Tenorio This is the best part of the trip.

[@Bassjunkie1985]

love the addition of that poem at the beginning. Definitely one of the best songs of the Doors.

[@AlexanderCherepanov]

Never heard this intro before. It's... BEAUTIFUL

[@atuliti]

What composition. ...out of world

[@MrMojoRisin77]

Just Love the begining

[@thewalrus5878]

"Yeah...I'm proud to be a part of this number!"

[@juliexx03]

I love the trip.

[@dynjarren8355]

I like the new poem added to the beginning. Now it’s even a better epic trip. They actually improved the song. Why didn’t they keep the poem at the beginning? I had to wait 50 years to hear a new poem by Jim? I could have died and never heard it. I hate it when they cut out original lyrics or parts. Like the original lyrics for Break on thru are She gets High! Not She Gets! Damn censorship! I had to wait 40 years to hear the original lyrics.

[@modsheff1]

proud tobe a part of this number!!!

[@celebrant9]

I feel the same way. Great lyrics, brilliant music. It really doesn't get any better than this.

[@darinlambie8695]

PRETTY GOOD HUH YAAAAAA PROUD TO BE A PART

[@Dr.Alarming]

I think this is one of the greatest songs of all time.

[@lynnsandbeck48]

ALRIGHT

[@1projectpat]

proud to be a part of this number!!!!!!!!

[@nataliebowman79]

Never heard the poem at the begining. Thanks for sharing that.

[@jamaral81]

Wow, they had alot. Love Riders on the Storm, Love Her Madley, Roadhouse Blues (studio and live version), Hello, I Love You, Moonlight Drive, Wishful Sinful, When the Music is Over, Light My Fire to name some.

[@The90sGamingGuy]

An epic song is write. The first time i heard this song was at a friends house while drinking and talking about music from this ear in about 2005. I had heard the song before then but only snippets and on this night with my good friend at the time that was a big Doors fan like i am a really tuned into the song.

[@joshbradley1982]

Man that was a great video! Very nicely put together - thanks!

[@KillTuco]

can anyone tell me why they didn't include the intro on the other versions? It's the most beautiful part and I want to know the story behind it if possible. please elaborate if you have the knowledge!

[@tomosoos]

alot of art in one place. mr. morrison, i love you

[@Margaret2332]

Lyrics and an Interpretation - The Soft Parade - The Doors - Produced by Paul A. Rothchild - Album - The Soft Parade - 1969 - - - - When I was back there in seminary school - There was a person there - Who put forth the proposition - That you can petition the Lord with prayer - Petition the lord with prayer - Petition the lord with prayer - You cannot petition the lord with prayer! - Can you give me sanctuary - I must find a place to hide - A place for me to hide - Can you find me soft asylum - I can't make it anymore - The Man is at the door - Peppermint, miniskirts, chocolate candy - Champion sax and a girl named Sandy - There's only four ways to get unraveled - One is to sleep and the other is travel, da da - One is a bandit up in the hills - One is to love your neighbor 'till - His wife gets home - Catacombs - Nursery bones - Winter women - Growing stones - Carrying babies - To the river - Streets and shoes - Avenues - Letter writers - Selling news - The monk bought lunch - Ha ha, he bought a little - Yes, he did - Woo! - This is the best part of the trip - This is the trip, the best part - I really like - What'd he say? - Yeah! - Yeah, right! - Pretty good, huh - Huh! - Yeah, I'm proud to be a part of this number - Successful hills are here to stay - Everything must be this way - Gentle streets where people play - Welcome to the Soft Parade - All our lives we sweat and save - Building for a shallow grave - Must be something else we say - Somehow to defend this place - Everything must be this way - Everything must be this way, yeah - The Soft Parade has now begun - Listen to the engines hum - People out to have some fun - A cobra on my left - Leopard on my right, yeah - The deer woman in a silk dress - Girls with beads around their necks - Kiss the hunter of the green vest - Who has wrestled before - With lions in the night - Out of sight! - The lights are getting brighter - The radio is moaning - Calling to the dogs - There are still a few animals - Left out in the yard - But it's getting harder - To describe sailors - To the underfed - Tropic corridor - Tropic treasure - What got us this far - To this mild equator? - We need someone or something new - Something else to get us through, yeah, come on - Calling on the dogs - Calling on the dogs - Oh, it's getting harder - Calling on the dogs - Calling in the dogs - Calling all the dogs - Calling on the gods - You got to meet me - Too late, baby - Slay a few animals - At the crossroads - Too late - All in the yard - But it's getting harder - By the crossroads - You got to meet me - Oh, we're going, we're going great - At the edge of town - Tropic corridor - Tropic treasure - Having a good time - Got to come along - What got us this far - To this mild equator? - Outskirts of the city - You and I - We need someone new - Something new - Something else to get us through - Better bring your gun - Better bring your gun - Tropic corridor - Tropic treasure - We're going to ride and have some fun - When all else fails - We can whip the horse's eyes - And make them sleep - And cry - - - - Artist: The Doors - - - - Album: The Soft Parade - - - - Released: 1969 - - - - Genre: Psychedelic rock - - - - - - - - - - - To understand the song when listening to the lyrics that accompanies the music, the whole song is about the different stages of life. For example the music in the begging of the song the lyrics “soft asylum” and “the man is at the door” is of being born the soft asylum representing the womb and the man at the door representing the doctor that is delivering you. That is why the music is so strange and ominous at this part of the song. It's the feeling of entering a world you don’t know. After that the music gets more uplifting, kind of carnival like, representing childhood, thats why there is reference of candies (peppermint/chocolate candy) and music (champion sax). Right at the line “one is to love your neighbor till his wife gets home” the music gets a little more confident and curious entering into adolescence and sexuality. The child is now affected, watching the neighbors wife and the sort of growing up that comes with it (catacombs/nursery bones) the realization of ones own mortality. Now at the part “this is the best part of the trip” the music takes on a more erratic feeling, it's your wild teenage years, when the world is yours and you feel that everything is on the table for the taking. Which is reflected in the lines “successful hills are here to stay” (the arrogance that comes with youth) “everything must be this way” (the longing for things to stay the same) but things quickly take a turn for the worse with the line “welcome to the soft parade” (aka welcome to the real world). Right around there the music seems to take on a more sinister tone “all our lives we sweat and save/building for a shallow grave.” Pretty self explanatory. The monotony of modern everyday life. You work to pay for things you don’t want, to impress those you don’t like. That is quickly realized in the next line “must be something else we say/somehow to defend this place.” We create deities and structures to convince ourselves of some greater purpose for all that we do and finally “everything must be this way” control, order, everything must be this way just pushing ourselves farther and farther into the sleep that tells us this is the right way to live. Follow the crowd crushing the feeling of the “successful hills” we once saw before us then the lines “we need someone or something new/something else to get us through.” All of a sudden we reach a point where the logic thats the way it is doesn't work anymore, and we search for something to fill the void. “Calling on the dogs” its become a hunt “its getting harder” to justify and the end Morrison has several voices going at the same time saying vastly different things from “its going great” to “slay a few animals/all in the yard.” Almost sounding like the interior dialog of man gone mad and the lines that sort of end the whole dialog. “Tropic corridors/ tropic treasures/ what brought us this far to this mild equator” is in a way reflective looking back a life well lived and wondering where it went wrong, and finally the line the closes off the song “when all else fails we can whip the horses eyes/ and make them sleep and cry.” I think it could be a reference to Nietzsche. More specifically the moment that most people believe he went mad. I think Morrison is trying to say that in the end we can always rely on death to end the pain. - Fil

[@dynjarren8355]

Thanks for your interpretation of this incredible song. I’m still digesting it but I always thought the Man is at the Door meant Death is at my Door. Please give me soft Asylum because the Man is after me! Death or the Powers that be are gunning for me. I never saw it as a Doctor at birth. I don’t recall any Damn Doctor at my birth. Do you remember a Doctor at your birth? I doubt it. So there I differ with you. But I would say the lyrics are open to all kinds of interpretations. So don’t be offended please.

[@sidDkid87]

"You CANNOT petition the lord with prayer!!!"

[@JamesOYoung]

sidDkid87 he was wrong .. you can.. i do it all the time

[@mvrz6]

@@JamesOYoung Let me guess does he answer 50% of the time with coincidence?

[@annmariemiccolis4541]

This is great. Thanks so much!

[@brianinglis3805]

This is the best part of the trip, this is the trip, the best part, I really like......

[@RHCPFL3A]

You rarely see a 168 - 0 'like/dislike' score on anything. Amazing song.. I hope this song will never get a single dislike..

[@celebrant9]

Thank you very much, I made this collage, yes. It was my pleasure, the Doors have taken some very nice photographs throughout their short career. :)

[@maximelhuillier2862]

I am troubled, immeasurably by your eyes. I am struck by the feather of your soft reply. The sound of glass speaks quick, disdain and conceals what your eyes fight to explain.

[@celebrant9]

My only regret is that I never got to see him when he was touring with Robbie (granted they never came where I live but still...). Amazing lyrics by Jim on "The Soft parade", always so true.

[@geoffbeck9394]

this is one of the best Jim!

[@justinzarling4733]

Jim's whole life was like a moth rushing towards one of those porch light zappers in the backyard. A short lived life for those who want to seize their moment.

[@stephenward8328]

Never heard a life described quite like that bravo

[@rkoorse]

tragic nonetheless. Made his mark for sure. Flared out. Shame, that.

[@BSmart-wp3be]

Perfect analogy...

[@MrWicked61671]

AWESOME slideshow, man. One of my fave songs & albums by them. Fuck the critics saying this album wasn't good, or that The Doors fell off by making this ablum. R.I.P. Jim

[@kingbopit9318]

One of my dads favorite albums R I P Jim Morrison You were the open door in the band

[@memoeuc666]

live forever of the doors and the big master jim morrison

[@justinscrivner5457]

jesus christ. nobody sounds like these guys. if they did, they be caught stealing.

[@SupremeMrRici]

amazing version.. thank you!

[@1projectpat]

hell yeah bro good job on the vid and you are right one of their best masterpieces ever, with so many to choose from!!!! the Doors are the best band ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@gungo7065]

pure intelligence in their faces what a rare fuckin combination intelligence and rock! they are unique and only ones forever!

[@MsAstekas]

I m french and I live in paris.One day I went to the cemetary Pere Lachaise where Jim's tomb is. If you can do this in your life I recommande you cause it's full of sensation when I saw his tomb I was so painfull and I hope Jim is with us somewhere to fight the systeme or writing poem but sure is not petittion the lord with prayer.....

[@SpassMacher2000]

I'm going to shroom out to this album

[@betodickow2249]

this is totally absurd. took me to other existences. or different dimension of experiencie this existence. kinda like take an acid and go to some deja vu dream mixed with some prediction of the future ( just drink few beers, no drunkness). I miss what I didn't lived. I love this shit. Art is the only salvation. damn. so hard to explain. my eyes didn't fought. just enjoyed.

[@modsheff1]

SO PROUD TOBE APART OF THIS NUMBER!!!!

[@Nomadmandolin]

This song invaded my being at 9 years old...

[@rockandrollmetalhead]

awesome song! its very entertaining to listen to

[@therealgman4321]

No way. After the monk buys lunch, it's the best part of the trip. I really like.

[@szqsk8]

A few bong rips then listen to this. 👀🤘

[@loreleinalvarez5074]

Nunca me cansare de escuchar esto! Love it ♡_♡

[@dominjav9631]

Me pasa lo mismo....Es una obra maestra del más grande

[@Davidkevin]

I was never an acidhead, but I identified with many of them. In junior high and early high school, The Doors, Steppenwolf, Blue Cheer, and the Jefferson Airplane were among my favorite bands, and George Carlin's head period, Cheech & Chong, and early Firesign Theater my favorite humor. I'm talking about when I was twelve to fifteen.

[@katiejones7045]

Perfect :)

[@Jim01Morrison]

Im a big jim morrison freak&&i love him&&the doors I love this song good choice.!:)

[@ObviousToday]

This version is the best 3:58 - and this is the best part of the song i realy like.. whhhaaat?

[@Leestoners]

THIS IS THE BEST PART OF THE TRIP!

[@Nagualon]

This is the best part of the trip, this is the trip I really like!!...

[@WARLAINE]

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

[@nataliebowman79]

Never heard the poem at the begining. Thanks for that. P.S. I am not Chuirch going person but I firmly believe that you can petition the Lord with prayer, you just might get something you were not expecting.

[@Timo54Livari]

Now i understand the vocales all of Them ❤

[@stegbo]

Listen to it like ten times, you will love it then. It has lots going on.

[@kvidal08]

he paid the prize thats why i love him

[@hollylynn9322]

My fav doors song, soo funny, groovy, funky and juz totally fuckin cool!! Poetry at itz best

[@TheGlassHouses]

A perfect song. I can't say anything more.

[@18grifone93]

This is the best part of the trip,...this is the trip...the best part, I really like

[@damianknight974]

Perhaps this is the best version perhaps ...

[@1983Jacko]

I like them all, but the best in my opinion is the live version.