"Made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side"
These are the last lines to Break On Through. I feel Jim is speaking on the normality and repetitiveness of everyday life. He is saying that we are only part of a "scene", following the footsteps of others. Every week, day and hour are all the same and that society has become accustomed to the system we are born into / and eventually will die into. Although he is saying there is an escape, we can make our own scene if we just open our eyes. He claims that the gate to "the other side" is straight, deep and wide. Maybe saying that it's right in front if we could only just let it in. Once again I feel this is promoting individuality and self-discovery, encouraging us to look beyond the norm., escape the everyday, and break through to a new , more fulfilling life.
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If Morrison really was big on his poetry and literature from the 150 years prior to his death then do you think this poem, Invictus might have a correlation here?
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