Talk:The Lizard King
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-Setting about fixing this with a vengeance. Does anyone remember which tune included Morrison's yell "I am the Lizard King, I can do anything"?Mashford
The quote comes from "Not To Touch the Earth"
Here's the former text. What's the policy/etiquette on nuking text like this?Mashford 03:19, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Morrison believed the lizard had some magical power locked away in our collective unconscious that inflamed something within us. The lizard incites fear in our animal consciousness. Morrison likened the peristaltic motion to the life movement thus connecting us to the snake and lizard. Therefore, the Lizard King is a special, archetypal image. It's the epitome of all we fear and all we long for. It has a will-to-power control as we see the snake as powerful, the serpent as worthy foe for a human hero. As in one of Morrison's songs where he says, "I'm the crawling King snake and I rule my den." Like many of Jim Morrison's works he isn't focusing on the temporal, he wants to resonate with something deeper, and metaphysical. The Lizard King is the high-society's scapegoat and the common folk Dionysus put together. Nowadays Marilyn Manson may be the modern version, someone testing the boundries, somebody on the edge of the perimeter above middle-class laws and values. It's a transcendent idea. It's Freud's idea of the life-wish and the death-wish. Morrison lived as if each day was his last because he was so open to both these drives, and so transparent to transcendence. Jim would have us all be Lizard Kings as Jesus of Nazarene would have us all be Christs but in neither case was it totally understood at the time, and in both cases there still is a whole lot of mystery. That's the legend of Jim Morrison, He is the Lizard King. He is mysterious because he focused on the subconscious, between reality and spirituality. Jesus is the Christ, Buddha achieved nirvana and Jim Morrison became the Lizard King.
"There are things known, and things unknown. In between are The Doors"
[edit] Music Reference
I added this one-bullet section, but I'm not sure what a good/appropriate name would be. Fustigate314159 07:17, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] References
Audio Adrenaline's site, [1], was giving me issues trying to get the lyrics, so I didn't use it for the lyrics. I hope the 3rd party site is OK. Fustigate314159 07:26, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
