Light My Fire

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You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire guitar solo The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Shiny set the night on fire You know that it will be untrue You know that I would be alive If I was beside you Girl, we couldn't get much higher

Come on, baby,

light

my fire Come on, baby, light my fire Trying to set the night on fire Trying to set the night on fire Trying to set the night on fire Trying to set the night on fire Manx Radio Day turned black, sky ripped apart

All I got to do is to love you.

All I got to be is to be happy.

Chasin' all women around Open this up, it's first from my mind I'm just lookin' forward to a different mind I'm waitin' for my man Here he comes, he's all dressed in black He's never early, he's always late The first thing you learn is that you always gotta wait You're a brown stone with three flaxen scales Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares He's got the works, here's your sweet taste Aw, then you've gotta spit because you've got no time to waste Don't you holler, darling, don't you bawl and shout I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out I'm feeling good, I feel oh so fine Into tomorrow, but that's just another time

You know that it would be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire Try to set the night on fire, yeah The time to hesitate is through No time to wallow in the mire Try now we can only lose And our love become a funeral pyre Come on baby, light my fire Come on baby, light my fire

Try to set the night on fire You know that it would

be untrue You know that I would be a liar If I was to say to you Girl, we couldn't get much higher Come on, baby, light my fire Come on, baby, light my fire Trying to set the night on fire Trying to set the night on fire Trying to set the night on fire Trying to

set

the night Can't stay at home, can't stay at school.

The Doors had a big hit on this date in 1967.

They also performed Light My Fire on the Ed Sullivan Show.

And even though Jim Morrison agreed to change the lyrics, he sang the song live with the original lyrics, Girl, We Couldn't Get Much Higher.

Sullivan then banned them from appearing on his show again.

Sorry.

Light My Fire from The Doors.

Oh, yeah.

That'd be a hard dance to pull off, though.

Is

that the original Light My Fire?

He's Light My

Fire.

Oh.

Because the big hit of the summer was Light My Fire.

Oh, yeah.

And so the Doors equipment truck broke down on the way from L.A. to Dallas, and...

Come

on, baby, light my fire Try to set the night on fire

Light My Fire by The Doors.

That's 1967 and three records.

Soul music exploding, sunshine pop right in the middle, and psychedelic rock waiting on the other side.

1966, Wild Thing by the Trogs.

1967, Light My Fire by the Doors.

1968, This Guy's In Love With You by Herb Albert.

and in 1969, in the year 2025, by Zeger and Evans.

Like, I love The Doors.

I love the parts in Doors songs like, um, in, uh, Light My Fire, when it just sort of meanders off into this sort of like jazz, psychedelic, noodling part, you know? Like, there's no, there's basically no noodling in electronic music these days.

It's all quite focused and repetitive and sequenced.

So I really enjoy the sound of, like, electronic music with [upbeat music] this sort of like '60s organ solo over the top.