The Doors - The End

"Jim: Oedipus is a Greek myth. Sophocles wrote about it. I don't know who before that. It's about a man who inadvertently killed his father and married his mother. Yeah, I'd say there was similarity, definetely. But to tell you the truth, every time I hear that song, it means something else to me. I really don't know what I was trying to say. It just started out as a simple good-bye song. Probably just to a girl, but I could see how it could be a good-bye to a kind of childhood. I really don't know. I think it's sufficiently and universal in its imagery that it could be almost anything you want it to be.

'The End' is about three things: sex, death, travel... the theme is the same as in 'Light My Fire', liberation from the cycle of birth-orgasm-death.

If you want to. take 'The End' as being about patricide and incest. Read the last note to mean accomodation, not extermination, if that suits you more. That's as twentieth-century as you can get. I only aim to please."

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