Doors Music & Lyrics

Soft Parade

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
Leather riders
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, c'mon

Callin' on the dogs
Callin' on the dogs
Oh, it's gettin' harder
Callin' on the dogs
Callin' in the dogs
Callin' all the dogs
Callin' on the gods

You gotta meet me
Too late, baby
Slay a few animals
At the crossroads
Too late
All in the yard
But it's gettin' harder
By the crossroads
You gotta meet me
Oh, we're goin', we're goin great
At the edge of town
Tropic corridor
Tropic treasure
Havin' 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
Somethin' new
Somethin' else to get us through
Better bring your gun
Better bring your gun
Tropic corridor
Tropic treasure
We're gonna ride and have some fun

When all else fails
We can whip the horse's eyes
And make them sleep
And cry

• 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