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This is the quintessential Doors song.
Vivid with exceptional imagery, drug use metaphor, psychedelic musical composition, and amazing vocals, this is a great example of everything The Doors do the best, and all on the same track.

Jim Morrison was way into his psychedelics, and this is most likely a reference on LSD use, and the presumption that it helps users to have that breakthrough… Getting out of (social) reality, drawing new connections and acquiring a clearer image of what’s going on. After such an epiphany, one could claim that they passed on to the other side.

It’s worth mentioning that the name The Doors itself, was inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel The Doors of Perception which contains accounts of the author’s mescaline trips. Aldous Huxley borrowed the title of his book from a stanza in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

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What movies has this song appeared in?
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Gardens Of Stone (1987), Francis Ford Coppola
The Doors (1991), Oliver Stone
Mistah (1994), Bebong Osorio
Forrest Gump (1994), Robert Zemeckis
Those Who Love Me Can Take The Train (1998), Patrice Cherie
Jarhead (2005), Sam Mendes
Udaan (2010), Vikramaditya Motwane
Deliver Us From Evil (2014), Scott Derrickson
Minions (2015), Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin

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