Doors Music & Lyrics

Been Down So Long


Well, I've been down so Goddamn long
That it looks like up to me
Well, I've been down so very damn long
That it looks like up to me
Yeah, why don't one you people
C'mon and set me free

I said, warden, warden, warden
Won't you break your lock and key
I said, warden, warden, warden
Won't ya break your lock and key
Yeah, come along here, mister
C'mon and let the poor boy be

Baby, baby, baby
Won't you get down on your knees
Baby, baby, baby
Won't you get down on your knees
C'mon little darlin'
C'mon and give your love to me, oh yeah

Well, I've been down so Goddamn long
That it looks like up to me
Well, I've been down so very damn long
That it looks like up to me
Yeah, why don't one you people
C'mon, c'mon, c'mon and set me free

• Rhino's new three disc collection LIVE IN BOSTON features two complete sets from Friday April 10, 1970 at the Boston Arena and captures the moment just before the Doors turned their mystical psych circus into a full blown blooze review. As a historical document, LIVE IN BOSTON is unflinching, presenting a decidedly warts-and-all view across 46 tracks. With Ray Manzarek's polychromatic organ, Robbie Krieger's no-frills guitar lines, and Jon Densmore's Latin-inflected percussion, the band ably follows Morrison through every far-flung inspiration. The covers are many, as an epic "Light My Fire" alone touches upon "Fever," "Summertime," and "St. James Infirmary Blues" before returning to its familiar chorus. The show, of course, belongs to Morrison who seems stuck between shaman-poet and Brechtian comic instigator. Indeed one of the primary attractions of LIVE IN BOSTON is the banter. With more skits than an Outkast record--including idiotic stoner ramblings, inspired period pieces, and wry self-parodies--this set proves that even at his most bloviated, Morrison could be an inspired and often hilarious performer who knew how to push a crowd's buttons. It was worth the price of admission for Doors fans in 1970 and given the staid contemporary relationship between rock performers and audiences, it still resonates today.
   

 Available Now Triple CD set Limited quantities  Click Live In Boston 1970 [Blister]

The following is a listing of the tracks on various Doors LP's:

THE DOORS: Break On Through, Soul Kitchen, The Crystal Ship,
Twentieth-Century Fox, Alabama Song, Light My Fire, Back Door
Man, I Looked at You, End Of the Night, Take It As It Comes,
The End.

STRANGE DAYS: Strange Days, You're Lost Little Girl, Love Me Two
Times, Unhappy Girl, Horse Latitudes, Moonlight Drive, People
are Strange, My Eyes have Seen You, I Can't See Your Face in My
Mind, When the Music's Over.

WAITING FOR THE SUN: Hello I Love You, Love Street, Not to Touch
the Earth, Summer's Almost Gone, Wintertime Love, The Unknown
Soldier, Spanish Caravan, My Wild Love, We Could Be So Good
Together, Yes the River Knows, Five to One

THE SOFT PARADE: Tell All the People, Touch Me, Shaman's Blues, Do It,
Easy Ride, Wild Child, Runnin' Blue, Wishful Sinful, The Soft Parade

MORRISON MOTEL: Road House Blues, Waiting for the Sun, You Make me
Real, Peace Frog, Blue Sunday, Ship of Fools, Land Ho!, The Spy,
Queen of the Highway, Indian Summer, Maggie M'Gill.

L.A. WOMAN: The Changeling, Love Her Madly, Been Down So Long, Cars
Hiss By My Window, L.A.Woman, L'America, Hyacinth House, Crawling
King Snake, The WASP (Texas Radio & the Big Beat), Riders On the
Storm.

THE DOORS GREATEST HITS: Hello I Love You, Light My Fire, People Are
Strange, Love Me Two Times, Riders On the Storm, Break On Through,
Roadhouse Blues, Not to Touch the Earth, Touch Me, L.A. Woman.

CLASSICS: Strange Days, Love Her Madly, Waiting For the Sun, Stoned immaculate, My Eyes
Have Seen You, Wild Child, The Crystal Ship, Five to One, Roadhouse
Blues [live], Land Ho!, I Can't See Your Face In My Mind, Peace Frog,
The WASP, The Unknown Soldier.


 

Colin Jones Media 2008 Australia