Break On Through (To the Other Side)

You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day;
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there,
Can you still recall
The time we cried?
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby

She gets, she gets
She gets, she gets

I found an island in your arms
A country in your eyes
Arms that chain,
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

Made the scene from week to week
Day to day, hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through







- The Doors first single, released in January 1967

- This billboard with the message, THE DOORS: Break On Through with an Electrifying Album" was the first of its kind for a rock band. It was displayed on the Sunset Strip.

- "She gets, she gets" Jac Holzman suggested the band remove the word, "high" at the end of the line because he felt as though the word, "high" would discourage radio airplay. A video on Jac Holzman.

- "You know the day destroys the night, night divides the day." From Genesis 1. First God made heaven & earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters. And God said, "Let there be light"; and there was light. And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night.

- It is believed that the song was inspired, as well as the group's name, The Doors, by Aldous Huxley's book, The Doors of Perception, which was inspired by William Blake's The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.

- Author's Note: I believe the song is actually the four parts that make up a life. The first stanza represents "creation" or birth. "You know the day destroys the night, night divides the day, tried to run, tried to hide, break on through to the other side." This is representative of leaving the mother's womb and "breaking" into a new life.

The second stanza represents childhood: "We chased our pleasures here, dug our treasures there, can you still recall the time we cried?"

The third stanza, beginning with the line "Everybody loves my baby...she gets...I found an island in your arms, a country in your eyes, arms that chain, eyes that lie." This confirms a relationship and/or love.

And then the final stanza represents death and the final transition to another world-
Made the scene from week to week, day to day, hour to hour, the gate is straight, deep and wide, break on through to the other side

Jim Morrison created a beautiful and arresting song here. He is not content with just a normal life- he seeks something higher and more meaningful in every aspect of his life: birth, childhood, love, and death.

The following is a quote from Aldous Huxley, confirming the desire to elevate our senses:

- "If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution-then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise."