Jim Morrison Poem Used in New Global Warming Campaign

Rock 103 Memphis ^ | January 31, 2007 | Staff

[mcg2000]

His poem "Woman In The Window" is set to music and will be released as a single in April.

Rock legend Jim Morrison is helping the fight against global warming from beyond the grave, with the release of a song he wrote.

Environmental campaigners have taken a poem, "Woman In The Window," written by Morrison shortly before he died in 1971, and set it to music, with the help of New Order and former Jane's Addiction star Perry Farrell.

The track was given to Farrell by the Jim Morrison estate. It will be released as a single in April.

Dan Morrell, founder of the Global Cool campaign, says he chose the song because it contains predictions correctly made about the state of the world - including the line, "Man you are evil, get out of my garden."

Morrell says, "It's very strange to hear this thing recorded more than 30 years ago that seems so relevant to the environmental challenge we face today."

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[mcg2000]

A lot of liberties are being taken with the translation of the poem ... what's new, right?

[nmh]

So unoriginal.

Redefining anything handy to fit their exaggerated agenda.

Anyone have the stupid poem to post?

[snarks_when_bored]

Jim Morrison is quite cool...well, what's left of him...

[FreedomGuru]

Dan Morrell, founder of the Global Cool campaign, says he chose the song because it contains predictions correctly made about the state of the world - including the line, "Man you are evil, get out of my garden."

Predictions from a drug induced rocker....LOL.
"Man you are evil, get out of my garden" obviously he was refering to George Bush back then.

[nmh]

I was curious about his poetry. Found a web page that had some of it. I can't help but wonder what illegal frugs he lived on where -

POWER

I can make the earth stop in
its tracks. I made the
blue cars go away.

I can make myself invisible or small.
I can become gigantic & reach the
farthest things. I can change
the course of nature.
I can place myself anywhere in
space or time.
I can summon the dead.
I can perceive events on other worlds,
in my deepest inner mind,
& in the minds of others.

I can

I am

http://www.huddersfield1.co.uk/poetry/morrisonpoetry.htm

Reading through THIS poem, I believe he thought he was god!

LOL!!!

Yeah, I'm sure I'll take HIM seriously ... .

[aristotleman]

There is a Walt Whitman influence here.

[nmh]

"The previously unreleased poem written and recorded by Morrison shortly before his demise in 1971 will be used to publicise the Global Cool Campaign, which aims at cutting carbon emissions."

http://news.webindia123.com/news/Articles/entertainment/20070201/580181.html

Such a "deep" thinker:

Time is Like Acid


Time works like acid
Stained eyes
You see time fly

The face changes as the heart beats
& breathes

We are not constant
We are an arrow in flight
The sum of the angles of change

Her face changed in the car
eyes & skin & hair remain
the same. But a hundred similar
girls succeed each other

http://www.mhasd.k12.wi.us/hs/students/fehrmanfrank/poem11.html

Must have been a bad trip ... .

Well couldn't find The Woman in the Window ... should be as revealing and coherent as the others he wrote ... .

[nmh]

JIm Morrison wasd hot in my time ... I enjoyed some of his music ... who can forget, Light My Fire?

Anyway,

"Morrison's drinking, exhibitionistic performances, and drug-taking badly affected his singing and input at recordings. "Let's just say I was testing the bounds of reality," he confessed in 1969 in Los Angeles. "I was curious to see what would happen. That's all it was: just curiosity." In Miami in 1969 the audience thought it saw Jim's "snake" - he was charged with exposing himself on stage, in full view of 10.000 people. The police did not arrest him on the spot, for fear that it would cause a riot. Next year Morrison was sentenced 8 months' hard labor and a $500 fine for "profanity" and "indecent exposure", but he remained free while the sentence was appealed against. The Soft Parade (1969), which experimented with brass sections, was received with mixed emotions but it had a hit single, 'Touch me'. "

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/morrison.htm

Entertainment good ir bad is one thing but an icon for "global warming"? Ahead of his time on "global warming"? Come on. GET REAL!

[SquirrelKing]

A campaign. That's all global warming is. Welcome to the new mass hysteria.

[nmh]

He wasn't a stupid guy but he blew it on drugs.

He could have been so much more ... .

[mcg2000]

I'm not sure I necessarily buy into all the derogatory comments based upon someone viewing things in a poetic/symbolistic perspective.

[nmh]

I was a fan back then ... they're true.

THe guy didn't start out as ana idiot. He was rather bright but drugs got the better of him. He was one who was "searching for truth" types that never found it.

[Alia]

The DNC theme must be "We all live on Love Street". lol.

[freedomson]

He self destructed before he reached 30 years of age.

[mcg2000]

"Entertainment good ir bad is one thing but an icon for "global warming"? Ahead of his time on "global warming"? Come on. GET REAL!?"

He did have some interesting things to say regarding society's evolution.

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1594014,00.html

[weegee]

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"The track was given to Farrell by the Jim Morrison estate." The "estate" is owned by the father of Jim's wife. He is an ex-principal. Don't know what his politics are but he's sat on releasing much from Morrison's back catalog (including the movie Jim made well after forming the Doors).

[weegee]

The Communist Party likes to revise the historical record from time to time.

Morrison is now a patron saint of the Red-Greens' global cooling, er warming movement.

[RepoGirl]

Thought you'd like to weigh in on this.

[weegee]

The DNC theme must be "We all live on Love Street". lol.

Ted Kennedy's song is "Whiskey Song" while the DNC coalition is "People Are Strange".

[cbkaty]

Morrell says, "It's very strange to hear this thing recorded more than 30 years ago that seems so relevant to the environmental challenge we face today."

30 year old poem....compared to millions of years of environmental changes....is a joke...right? The environment has always been in flux....and it was 30 years ago.

Nothing to see here folks...move on down the road...

[MassRepublicanFlyersFan]

How about the song "Different Drum" with Linda Ronstadt on vocals? The lyrics that humiliate a man who wants to love one woman. Perfect for the DNC.

http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/ronstadt-linda/different-drum-1658.html

You and I travel to the beat of a different drum
Oh can't you tell by the way I run
Every time you make eyes at me
Wo-oh

You cry and moan and say it will work out
But honey child I've got my doubts
You can't see the forest for the trees

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

Oh don't get me wrong
It's not that I knock it
It's just that I am not in the market
For a boy who wants to love only me

Yes, and I ain't saying you ain't pretty
All I'm saying is I'm not ready
For any person place or thing
To try and pull the reins in on me

So good-bye I'll be leaving
I see no sense in this crying and grieving
We'll both live a lot longer
If you live without me

[nmh]

Are you referring to THIS?

"Among the most interesting include his days at UCLA's film school and the repercussions of his indecent exposure charge in Miami, as well as his subsequent impressions of the American justice system. Morrison's comments are immensely thoughtful as he laboriously contemplates answers and reactions in what becomes a dialogue. Both Stevenson and the assignment photographer Kurt Ingham quiz Morrison about his labelmates the Stooges and other burgeoning boundary-pushing bands. In a macabre turn in the conversation, Morrison speaks about the concurrent passings of Canned Heat's Al Wilson, Janis Joplin, and Jimi Hendrix. While he doesn't go so far as casting stones at his late contemporaries, he does present somewhat philosophical explanations that lead him to discuss his own mortality. Morrison muses that he "hopes [his passing occurs] at about age 120 with a sense of humor and a nice comfortable bed," adding, "I wouldn't want anyone around, I would just want to quietly drift off." In less than nine months, he would do just that. This single-disc volume is available exclusively through the Doors' own website at www.thedoors.com. ~ Lindsay Planer, All Music Guide"

http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1594014,00.html

That's all that website had to say.

Care to be more specific.

Having moved on and grown up, I fail to find him insightful.

What is a pity is that he wasted his life. He was a dreamer. He had questions but no answers. His life evolved around, sex, drugs and rock and roll. LISTEN to the lyrics of his popular songs - you'll see that theme.

[nmh]

Isn't that the truth!

[mcg2000]

I'll take the time to type out quotes a little later ... he speaks about television news replacing reality with opinions masked as truths, instant messaging on personal computers in every home, the American south being the region of future great population increases, the graying of all lines between entertainment and news, California becoming part of Mexico, the loss of religion to politics ...

[SouthTexas]

Obviously the only response can be "The End".

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

This isn't anything "new" and "undiscovered." This poem was published in the 1988 book Wilderness: The Lost Poems of Jim Morrison. I don't think "Woman in the Window" was ever intended as doors material. Morrison wrote a lot of stuff that would not fit in the doors genre. For all his wild child posturing, his poetry has a very classical bent to it. I have read and written more poetry than should be allowed. I have also learned by experience that alcohol (or any other substance) and poetry should never be combined. This where his poetry shows its weakness.

[woofie]

Has Jim lost weight?

[snarks_when_bored]

Has Jim lost weight?

By all reports, he's definitely thinned out...

[mcg2000]

Never really understood all the "big fat dead guy in a bathtub" jokes? Here's reportedly the last photo taken of Morrison 2-3 days before he died.

[snarks_when_bored]

Either the aspect ratio of the photo is off or else his face is quite puffy. The iconic lean and hungry androgynous look is absent.

[Alia]

Every single time I hear that song, I wanna segueway into singing "I am Woman Hear Me Roar".

blech. lol.

I prefer "Free Bird", a manly song for manly women! The words and delivery are so much more polite, nurturing, and tender.

[Alia]

Ted Kennedy's song is "Whiskey Song"

His tribute to the after Davos Karioke Bar Scene..

while the DNC coalition is "People Are Strange" sing with me... "faces come out of the rain, in a global warming crisis... ain't it straaa-aaanngee.."

lol!

[MassRepublicanFlyersFan]

I like your style. :-)

[Tarpon]

They got their poem, they got their chants, but where is the science?

[Alia]

GMTA! :)