Soul Kitchen Lyrics
I guess I'd better go now
I'd really like to stay here all night
The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes
Street lights share their hollow glow
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
Still one place to go
Still one place to go
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well, your fingers weave quick minarets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget, learn to forget
Learn to forget, learn to forget
Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves
Well the clock says it's time to close now
I know I have to go now
I really want to stay here
All night, all night, all night
This song is talking about how he doesn't want to leave this state of mind he is in. He wants to stay where he feels good and doesn;t want to return from the metaphysical world. "Learn to forget" is talking about how people need to forget everything they have been brainwashed by society so they can see the true world, not the agreed upon illusion we all live in.
The Soul Kitchen was an all night soul food restaurant that Jim & friends stayed at during the college years.
The "Soul Kitchen" is actually referring to a restaraunt where the band used to go when they were still in their early stages... It was Jim's favorite place to eat. You can read it in John Densmore's book called "Riders On The Storm". A must read for any true Doors fan!
All I can say is that this song is awesome!
"Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen"
How cool is that? I wonder what the soul kitchen really is? It would be interesting to find out what this song is really about.
all of the meanings you can think of are correct. it's hardly possible to read too much into poetry. in fact' that's why jim's such a genius: his lyirics can be read in so many ways and mean something different to each listener. if this song had only one meaning (e.g. a dinner),it wouldn't be nothing more than the ramblings of a raveling drunk.
by the way, patti smith covers this song, highly recomendable
One of the most vivid and visceral descriptions of how it feels like to stumble around Los Angeles at night under the influence of one thing or another. A three minute long "Fear and Loathing". Out here we is stoned, immaculate.
great song...
hmmm....... for some reason i always thought this song was about sex.... the "soul kitchen" could represent... female parts, the soul is cooked into being in the "kitchen" of the female... weird, but ive always thought it for some reason. jim morrison is god!
I was going to say the exact same thing....right on
I was going to say the exact same thing....right on
well , man spending time with a woman , i believe he just feeling very good being with her he feels nice warm , compares her presense to soul kitchen , think kitchen , kitchen is the place where you can smell all flavour , its nice and warm there , in the house I use to love to go to the kitchen sitting there while mum was cooking , talking to her , watching her creating lovely food , smell nice flavours, yes we have nice feelings thinking 'kitchen' , but tehre is also other thought if jim was a junkie then it might b a 'kitchen' where was prepered drug , warming up spoon so on...prefer first interpretaion first is good;)
Whatever the symbolism behind this song, I dig it.