Prophetic Lyrics

This page is about lyrics from the 27ers that take on greater poignancy after their deaths.

The Doors//The End

Fantastic track and one of the 'theme' tunes of The Doors, although not everybody thought so.  The chanting in the song gets a little obscene and some venue owners weren't quite ready for this in the sixties. Here are the last few verses:

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill 

This is the end 
Beautiful friend 
This is the end 
My only friend, the end 

It hurts to set you free 
But you'll never follow me 
The end of laughter and soft lies 
The end of nights we tried to die 

This is the end

Janis Joplin//Bye Bye Baby

I may wind up in the street or sleep beneath a tree,
Still I guess you know honey I've gotta go.

Jimi Hendrix//Midnight Lightning

I get stoned
I can't go home
I'm calling long distance on a public saxophone
My head is achin'
Lord my mind is breakin'
Feel I got run over by Captain Coconut and his dog named Rover
Gotta keep on movin'
Gotta keep on movin'
To understand both sides of the sky
you gotta keep on groovin' yeah,
Good groovin'
'Cause you got your God and so do I
We gotta keep on lovin'
Good, good, good, lovin' 
Make love on my dyin' bed
We gotta stop smokin', stop, stop,
I mean cigarette smokin'
Or else I cough myself to death
And to make love to you baby,
I wouldn't even have the breath
we gotta keep movin'
keep on groovin'
Understand both sides of the sky
Keep on movin'
Keep on movin'
You got your God and so do I