The Doors - The Crystal Ship ( repost from 8/22/11 )

I spent some time with this song this afternoon. Then I studied the lyrics and checked out the web for the song's meaning.

There was a pretty good interpretation, but it fell a little short. Then I came across the idea that he is actually singing to himself and about himself.

Without going too much deeper into it, I'd say, at the very least, that he's singing to an alter ego. It could be himself, while he is high, or to someone he is still in love with. But the last line in the song messes up that interpretation, so I think the song is about himself while he is high and while he is straight.

Well, that is all for today. Thanks for coming by and have a great evening.

Update:

This song must have some type of attraction for me as I went back to it.  Anyhow, the above interpretation astounds me a little.  I'm thinking that it makes a great song for space travel.  You won't get high on drugs, but get high on space instead--- literally.

Update:

Perhaps an explanation is in order for the space travel claim for this song.  One part should be obvious--- the ship part.  There's the part where it says he'd rather fly than cry.  There's the sense of going somewhere exciting and then returning.  He asks "where your freedom lies" and answers "the streets are fields that never die".  The same can be said of space.  Ultimate in freedom and there's no end to it.

The part that may not be so obvious, maybe because it is that way with me, is the "crystal" part.  There's the mystical properties of crystal--- a crystal ball that can tell the future.  That's obvious, but the part that isn't is where the reference to drugs may have come into this.  Perhaps this wasn't the intent at all with the song, but it could be some kind of hip thing that's going over my head.  I'm not into that.  However, if the crystal ship has mystical properties, so could the crystal space ship.  It opens up new possibilities, experiences.  So, that part can work too.

So, there it is.  My interpretation.  Make what you will of it.