All our lives we sweat and save

        Building for a shallow grave

        Must be something else we say

        Somehow to defend this place.

 

  The Doors와 짐 모리슨을 처음 어떻게 알게되었는 지는 도통 기억이 나질 않는다. 마치 그의 영혼과 꿈 속에서 조우(遭遇)라도 한것 마냥 내게는 너무 친숙한 그이다. 나의 20대까지를 완벽하게 지배했던 나의 유일한 우상이자 반면교사(反面敎師)라는 또 다른 의미의 스승이다. 여지껏 이토록 누군가에게 경도(傾倒)되어 몰입한 적이 있었나 싶다.

그는 누구인가?

 

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그를 정의하자면 부정적인 말들이 쏟아져 나온다.

남부의 신사, 지겨운 녀석, 시인, 짐승같은 놈, 마술사 등등...

(2류 뮤지션이자 3류 시인이라고 누군가 말했었다.) 

그럼 내가 첫 구매했던 도어즈의 5번째 앨범인 Morrison Hotel LP를 끄집어 냈다. 그곳의 이름모를 필자의 해설지에서 몇 자 추려본다.

'삶과 죽음, 사랑, 카리스마 그리고 일렉트릭 블루스의 독특한 변형 이것이 바로 그룹 도어스에게 부여된 심오한 영적 분위기였다, 무기력한 젊은이의 입장을 대변하는 신비주의적인 짐 모리슨의 보컬... (이하 생략)'

( 이 음반은 Warner 직배음반이 아닌 오래된 오아시스 라이센스 앨범이므로 금지곡이 있을 수 있어서 체크해봤다. 역시나 A면의 Peace Frog가 빠져있었다.)

도어즈의 위키도 찾아봤다.

 

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American rock band The Doors were an American rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1965, with vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger, and drummer John Densmore. They were among the most controversial and influential rock act

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친숙한 이름들... 또한 고인이 되신 Ray Manzarek 그리고 생존멤버인 Robby Krieger 그리고 John Densmore.

짐 모리슨 사후의 The Doors와 그 멤버들의 앨범에는 관심조차 가질 않았다. 그들의 존재만으로는 더 이상 The Doors가 아닌 것이다. 그들의 디스코그라피를 간추렸다.

 

▣ Selected Discography

- Studio

The Doors (1967)

Strange Days (1967)

Waiting for the Sun (1968)

The Soft Parade (1969)

Morrison Hotel (1970)

L.A. Woman (1971)

An American Prayer (1978)

- Live

In Concert (1991)

- Soundtrack

The Doors: Original Soundtrack Recording (1991) [CD/ Video/ DVD]

- Compilation

Greatest Hits (1980)

- Bootleg

The Doors: The Greatest Hits (1991): 한양

- Reference

Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and The Doors (by John Densmore, 김명환 역, 세광)

 

▣ Album Review

1st. The Doors (1967)

 

01. Break On Through (To the Other Side)

02. Soul Kitchen

03. The Crystal Ship

04. Twentieth Century Fox

05. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)

06. Light My Fire

07. Back Door Man

08. I Looked at You

09. End of the Night

10. Take It as It Comes

11. The End

 

The Crystal Ship은 내가 젊었을 때 누군가에게 녹음해서 주었던 노래로 나에게는 연가였던 셈이다.

 

Before you slip into unconsciousness

I'd like to have another kiss

Another kiss flashing chance at bliss,

Another kiss, another kiss...

 

2nd. Strange Days (1967)

이들의 두번째 앨범 또한 Warner 직배 라이센스로 93년 발매되었다. 첫 곡 Strange Days부터 듣다보면 시간은 부지불식간에 흘러 어느덧 마지막 곡 When the Music's Over로 그 끝을 치달았다. 앨범커버를 들여다보는 재미를 CD에서는 느끼기 어려워 이 앨범 역시 LP가 없어 아쉽다. 애청음반이다. 앨범 커버 아트가 웃프다.

01. Strange Days

02. You're Lost Little Girl

03. Love Me Two Times

04. Unhappy Girl

05. Horse Latitudes

06. Moonlight Drive

07. People Are Strange

08. My Eyes Have Seen You

09. I Can't See Your Face in My Mind

10. When the Music's Over

 

우리나라에서는 Growing UP이란 제목으로 개봉되었던 영화 속 Bobby Vinton의 Mr. Lonely라는 노래가 스크린 속에서 흐를 때의 그 장면이 내게도 일어났었다. 물론 20대에... 그 때 나의 심정은 이 앨범에 고스란히 녹아있는 듯...

(이건 지극히 개인적인 경험이지만)

...

Strange days have found us
And through their strange hours
We linger alone
Bodies confused
Memories misused
As we run from the day
To a strange night of stone

...

 

3rd. Wating for the Sun (1967)

01. Hello, I Love You

02. Love Street

03. Not to Touch the Earth

04. Summer's Almost Gone

05. Wintertime Love

06. The Unknown Soldier

07. Spanish Caravan

08. My Wild Love

09. We Could Be So Good Together

10. Yes, the River Knows

11. Five to One

 

The Celebration Of The Lizard

Lions in the street and roaming
Dogs in heat, rabid, foaming
A beast caged in the heart of a city
The body of his mother
Rotting in the summer ground
He fled the town

He went down South and crossed the border
Left the chaos and disorder
Back there over his shoulder

One morning he awoke in a green hotel
With a strange creature groaning beside him
Sweat oozed from its shiny skin

Is everybody in?
The ceremony is about to begin

Wake up!
You can’t remember where it was
Had this dream stopped?
The snake was pale gold
Glazed and shrunken
We were afraid to touch it
The sheets were hot dead prisons

Now, run to the mirror in the bathroom
Look!
I can’t live thru each slow century of her moving
I let my cheek slide down
The cool smooth tile
Feel the good cold stinging blood
The smooth hissing snakes of rain . . .

Once I had, a little game
I liked to crawl back into my brain
I think you know the game I mean
I mean the game called ‘go insane’
Now you should try this little game
Just close your eyes forget your name
Forget the world forget the people
And we’ll erect a different steeple
This little game is fun to do
Just close your eyes no way to lose
And I’m right there I’m going too
Release control we’re breaking thru
Way back deep into the brain
Back where there’s never any pain
And the rain falls gently on the town
And in the labyrinth of streams
Beneath, the quiet unearthly presence of
Nervous hill dwellers in the gentle hills around
Reptiles abounding
Fossils, caves, cool air heights

Each house repeats a mold
Windows rolled
Beast car locked in against morning
All now sleeping
Rugs silent, mirrors vacant
Dust blind under the beds of lawful couples
Wound in sheets
And daughters, smug
With semen eyes in their nipples

Wait
There’s been a slaughter here

Don’t stop to speak or look around
Your gloves and fan are on the ground
We’re getting out of town
We’re going on the run
And you’re the one I want to come

Not to touch the earth
Not to see the sun
Nothing left to do, but
Run, run, run
Let’s run
House upon the hill
Moon is lying still
Shadows of the trees
Witnessing the wild breeze
C’mon baby run with me
Let’s run
Run with me
Run with me
Run with me
Let’s run

The mansion is warm, at the top of the hill
Rich are the rooms and the comforts there
Red are the arms of luxuriant chairs
And you won’t know a thing till you get inside
Dead president’s corpse in the driver’s car
The engine runs on glue and tar
C’mon along, we’re not going very far
To the East to meet the Czar

Some outlaws lived by the side of the lake
The minister’s daughter’s in love with the snake
Who lives in a well by the side of the road
Wake up, girl! We’re almost home
Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
I will get you
Soon!, Soon!, Soon!

Let the carnival bells ring
Let the serpent sing
Let everything

We came down
The rivers and highways
We came down from
Forests and falls

We came down from
Carson and Springfield
We came down from
Phoenix enthralled
And I can tell you
The names of the Kingdom
I can tell you
The things that you know
Listening for a fistful of silence
Climbing valleys into the shade

I am the Lizard King
I can do anything
I can make the earth stop in its tracks
I made the blue cars go away

For seven years I dwelt
In the loose palace of exile
Playing strange games
With the girls of the island
Now I have come again
To the land of the fair, and the strong, and the wise
Brothers and sisters of the pale forest
O Children of Night
Who among you will run with the hunt?
Now Night arrives with her purple legion
Retire now to your tents and to your dreams
Tomorrow we enter the town of my birth
I want to be ready’

 

4th. The Soft Parade (1969)

 

01. Tell All the People

02. Touch Me

03. Shaman's Blues

04. Do It

05. Easy Ride

06. Wild Child

07. Runnin' Blue

08. Wishful Sinful

09. The Soft Parade

좋아하는 Touch Me의 가사 일부 발췌한다.

 

Come on, come on, come on, come on

Now touch me, babe

Can't you see that I am not afraid?

What was that promise that you made?

Why won't you tell me what she said?

What was that promise that you made?

Now, I'm going to love you

'Til the heavens stop the rain

I'm going to love you

'Til the stars fall from the sky

For you and I

...

 

5th. Morrison Hotel (1970)

첫 구매앨범인 관계로 내게는 더 없이 편안하고 제일 많이 들었던 것 같은데, 국내발매음반(오아시스)에서 금지곡이었던 Peace Frog와 Blue Sunday가 이어지는 곡이었음을 나중에 알았다. Waiting for the Sun은 내게는 마법의 주술과도 같은 곡이다. 우리는 무엇을, 누군가를 기다려 본 적이 있었나? 내게도 가슴 떨리던 그 시절이 그립다.

01. Roadhouse Blues

02. Waiting for the Sun

03. You Make Me Real

04. Peace Frog

05. Blue Sunday

06. Ship of Fools

07. Land Ho!

08. The Spy

09. Queen of the Highway

10. Indian Summer

11. Maggie M'Gill

 

Blue Sunday의 가사 일부이다. 

 

I found my own true love was

On a blue Sunday

She looked at me

And told me

I was the only One in the world

Now I have found my girl

My girl awaits for me in tender time

My girl is mine

She is the world

She is my girl

...

 

6th. L.A. Woman (1971)

01. The Changeling

02. Love Her Madly

03. Been Down So Long

04. Cars Hiss by My Window

05. L.A. Woman

06. L'America

07. Hyacinth House

08. Crawling King Snake

09. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)

10. Riders on the Storm

 

▣ An American Prayer (1978)

Awake

01. Awake

02. Ghost Song

03. Dawn's Highway

04. Newborn Awakening

To Come of Age

05. To Come of Age

06. Black Polished Chrome

07. Latino Chrome

08. Angels and Sailors

09. Stoned Immaculate

The Poet's Dream

10. The Poet's Dream

11. The Movie Curses, Invocations

World on Fire

12. American Night

13. Roadhouse Blues

14. The World on Fire

15. Lament

16. The Hitchhiker

An American Prayer

17. An American Prayer

18. Hour for Magic

19. Freedom Exists

20. A Feast of Friends 

Bonus tracks

21. Babylon Fading

22. Bird of Prey

23. The Ghost Song (Extended Version)

 

...

Do you know the warm progress under the stars?

Do you know we exist?

Have you forgotten the keys to the kingdom?

Have you been born yet & are you alive?

 

 

▣ Live Album: In Concert (1991)

CD1은 1971년 발매된 Absolutely Live 앨범을 그대로 담고 있다. 다만 다른 점은 이 앨범에서는 The Celebration of the Lizard의 medley곡들을 각각의 트랙으로 옮겨왔다는 점이다.

CD2는 Alive, She Cried (1983)와 Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1987) 두개의 Live앨범에 The End의 더한 합본이다.

 

CD1

01. House Announcer

02. Who Do You Love? (Ellas McDaniel a.k.a. Bo Diddley)

03. Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) (Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht)

04. Back Door Man (Willie Dixon, Chester Burnett a.k.a. Howlin' Wolf)

05. Love Hides

06. Five to One

07. Build Me a Woman

08. When the Music's Over

09. Universal Mind

10. Petition the Lord with Prayer

11. Dead Cats, Dead Rats

12. Break On Through (To the Other Side), #2

The Celebration of the Lizard (Medley: 13-19)

13. Lions in the Street 1:14

14. Wake Up! 1:24

15. A Little Game 1:10

16. The Hill Dwellers 2:40

17. Not to Touch the Earth 4:14

18. Names of the Kingdom 1:25

19. The Palace of Exile 2:21" (listed by components)

20. Soul Kitchen

 

CD2

01. Roadhouse Blues

02. Gloria (Van Morrison)

03. Light My Fire including "Graveyard Poem" (Jim Morrison)

04. You Make Me Real

05. Texas Radio & The Big Beat

06. Love Me Two Times

07. Little Red Rooster (Dixon)

08. Moonlight Drive including "Horse Latitudes"

09. Close to You (Dixon)

10. The Unknown Soldier

11. The End

 

 

Proverbs of Hell
William Blake (1757-1827)

 

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. 

Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead. 

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. 

Prudence is a rich ugly old maid courted by Incapacity. 

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. 

The cut worm forgives the plow. 

Dip him in the river who loves water. 

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. 

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star. 

Eternity is in love with the productions of time. 

The busy bee has no time for sorrow. 

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure. 

All wholsom food is caught without a net or a trap. 

Bring out number weight & measure in a year of dearth. 

No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. 

A dead body, revenges not injuries. 

The most sublime act is to set another before you. 

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise. 

Folly is the cloke of knavery. 

Shame is Prides cloke. ~ Prisons are built with stones of Law, 

Brothels with bricks of Religion. 

The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. 

The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. 

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. 

The nakedness of woman is the work of God. 

Excess of sorrow laughs. 

Excess of joy weeps. 

The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man. 

The fox condemns the trap, not himself. 

Joys impregnate. 

Sorrows bring forth. 

Let man wear the fell of the lion, woman the fleece of the sheep. 

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. 

The selfish smiling fool, & the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod. 

What is now proved was once, only imagin'd. 

The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbit: watch the roots; the lion, the tyger, the horse,    the elephant, watch the fruits. 

The cistern contains; the fountain overflows. One thought, fills immensity. Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. 

Every thing possible to be believ'd is an image of truth. 

The eagle never lost so much time, as when he submitted to learn of the crow. ~ The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion. 

Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. 

Sleep in the night. He who has suffer'd you to impose on him knows you. As the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers. 

The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction. 

Expect poison from the standing water. 

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. 

Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title! 

The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth. 

The weak in courage is strong in cunning. 

The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse,  how he shall take his prey. 

The thankful reciever bears a plentiful harvest. If others had not been foolish, we should be so. 

The soul of sweet delight, can never be defil'd. When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius, lift up thy head! As the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to lay her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. 

To create a little flower is the labour of ages. 

Damn, braces: Bless relaxes. The best wine is the oldest, the best water the newest. 

Prayers plow not! Praises reap not! Joys laugh not! Sorrows weep not! ~ The head Sublime, the heart Pathos, the genitals Beauty, the hands & feet Proportion. 

As the air to a bird of the sea to a fish, so is contempt to the contemptible. 

The crow wish'd every thing was black, the owl, that every thing was white. 

Exuberance is Beauty. If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning. 

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement,  are roads of Genius. 

Sooner murder an infant in its cradle than nurse unacted desires. 

Where man is not nature is barren. 

Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd. 

Enough! or Too much!