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Songs: Jim Morrison's Grave

Recording Info

Jim Morrison's Grave has had 2 different recorded versions released over the years. The versions are:

  1. studio version recorded for the I Predict 1990 Project. This version has also been used as the soundtrack to a concept video. It appeared on the following recordings:
  2. live version recorded at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA on 22 October 1994. It appeared on the following recordings:

Lyrics

Jim Morrison's Grave

written by Steve Taylor
Copyright © 1987 Soylent Tunes (ASCAP)

Am I a pilgrim
Or another souvenir hound
In the city of lights
I set my sights
On a king's domain

It was a manhole
Dug over at the edge of town
And a spray can scrawl
On the cemetery wall
Said, "You'd better behave"

Jim Morrison's grave

It's getting cold here
And there ain't a lizard in sight
Did the end begin
When you shed your skin
In the home of the brave

Somebody shake him
From the land of larger than life
Where the remnants warn
Of a legend born
In a dead man's cave

Jim Morrison's grave

I stay driven 'cause there's nowhere to park
I can't shut my eyes--I'm afraid of the dark
I lie awake
That stone left me chilled to the bone
Sound the alarm before it's done
Find Jim Morrison

Come away to Paris
Let him see another day
Let him fade out slowly
Only fools burn away
Let a true love show him what a heart can become
Somebody find Jim Morrison
Find Jim Morrison's grave

I get weary
Lord, I don't understand
How does a seed get strangled in the heart of a man
Then the music covers like an evening mist
Like a watch still ticking on a dead man's wrist
Tick away

Notes and Interpretations

To come.

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