Five To One - The Doors Lyrics
Yeah, c'mon
Love my girl
She lookin' good
C'mon
One more
Five to one, baby
One in five
No one here gets out alive, now
You get yours, baby
I'll get mine
Gonna make it, baby
If we try
The old get old
And the young get stronger
May take a week
And it may take longer
They got the guns
But we got the numbers
Gonna win, yeah
We're takin' over
Come on!
Yeah!
Your ballroom days are over, baby
Night is drawing near
Shadows of the evening crawl across the years
Ya walk across the floor with a flower in your hand
Trying to tell me no one understands
Trade in your hours for a handful dimes
Gonna' make it, baby, in our prime
Come together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, aha
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time!
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, gotta, get together
Ohhhhhhhh!
Hey, c'mon, honey
You won't have along wait for me, baby
I'll be there in just a little while
You see, I gotta go out in this car with these people and...
Get together one more time
Get together one more time
Get together, got to
Get together, got to
Get together, got to
Take you up in my room and...
Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah
Love my girl
She lookin' good, lookin' real good
Love ya, c'mon
| "Five to one" was the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, young
to old, and non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967. Jim
Morrison said the lyrics were not political. |
| Jim Morrison was so drunk when he recorded this song, he needed help
from the studio staff on when to begin singing. If you listen closely,
you can hear someone in the background say "One more time" before Jim
starts his first verse. (thanks, Jeff - wyckoff, NJ) |
| Morrison got the idea for this while waiting in the audience before
performing a concert in 1967. |
| On bootlegs of live recordings, Morrison included the phrase "f--ked
up" in the spoken word section at the end. He swore a lot at live shows,
but the studio albums were always curse-free. |
| Robbie Krieger recorded a version of this with Marilyn Manson for
the 2000 Doors tribute album Stoned Immaculate. |
| In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1
Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison.
Scott Weiland from The Stone Temple Pilots sang on this. |
| Jay-Z sampled this on his 2000 song "Takeover." The track was
produced by Kanye West, who often uses old rock or R&B songs in rap
records. |
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