The Annotated Lyrics: Love Street

She lives on Love Street
Lingers long on Love Street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens

She has robes and she has monkeys
Lazy diamond studded flunkies
She has wisdom and knows what to do
She has me and she has you

She has wisdom and knows what to do
She has me and she has you

I see you live on Love Street
There's this store where the creatures meet
I wonder what they do in there
Summer Sunday and a year
I guess I like it fine, so far

She lives on Love Street
Lingers long on Love Street
She has a house and garden
I would like to see what happens

La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la
La, la, la, la, la, la, la

- "Love Street" is a 1968 song by The Doors which appears on their album Waiting For The Sun. The song is about the street in Laurel Canyon, California where Jim Morrison lived with his girlfriend Pamela Courson. Their address was 1812 Rothdell Trail. Reference

- "She has me and she has you." The lyrics indicate that Morrison knows that his girlfriend Pamela Courson has relations with other men. Reference

- Excellent read about a visit to Love Street

- "She has robes and she has monkeys" Pamela Courson left for Morocco with her sometime boyfriend Jean de Breteuil to buy clothes to stock her boutique. The original line of the song was, "she has robes and she has junkies" referred to the count and his cadre of gay blades who hung around Pamela. Jim later changed junkies to monkeys. - From the book, "Jim Morrison: Life, Death, Legend" by Stephen Davis.

- Jean de Breteuil - According to Bernett, Morrison bought the heroin from two men working for Jean de Breteuil, a French playboy and drug dealer.

"The dealers who Jim was talking to were well known," said Bernett.

"Both were French guys in their 20s. I knew what they were up to, and kept an eye out for Jim. He disappeared to the toilets at around 2am. Then, about half an hour later, a cloakroom attendant came up to me and told me someone was locked in one of the cubicles and wasn't coming out. It was then that I got a bouncer to smash the door down. Bernett was met by the sight of Morrison's body, slumped on the toilet" Reference

- "After other fights Pamela (Courson) would get whacked out of her skull on downers or, occasionally, smack, and be seen in public, tongue-wrestling with a bartender from the Beverly Hills Polo Lounge, under a table at the Troubadour bar, moving from party to party in the rich-rock-star circuit, asprawl in the back seat of limousines playing rock 'n' roll finger pie. She had dozen of affairs. One of them with a French young count (Jean de Breteuil) who had land in North Africa and who shared her affection for heroin, was considered serious." (Pg 263, No One Here Gets Out Alive.)

- "Jim's (Morrison) accountant was harping on Pamela's (Courson) extravagances Her allowance he could accept; even the spending sprees and charge accounts were within the limits of sanity. But the boutique was madness. It had already cost Jim $80,000.00, and Pamela was in Europe buying more stuff. That was the worst part for Jim. They had fought and Pamela had gone off to see the French count (Jean de Breteuil) she told her girlfriends she loved. (pg. 275, No One Here Gets Out Alive.)

- "Where Jim (Morrison) went after the movie , or if Jim went to the movie, is a matter for speculation. The various reports of that evening are snarled with contradictions Some say he went to the Rock 'n' Roll Circus (now the WAGG Bar and Club), so steeped in depression that he bought some heroin and O.D.'d in the club lavatory, on to be carried out the back door and dumped at his flat, in the bathtub." (pg. 365, No One Here Gets Out Alive)

- "(Bill) Siddons arrived in Paris on Tuesday, July 6. He was met at the flat by Pamela, a sealed coffin, and a signed death certificate. Funeral arrangements were quickly and secretly confirmed. On July 7 Pamela filed the death certificate with the U.S. Embassy, identifying Jim as James Douglas Morrison, a poet. She said there were no living relatives. The official cause of death was listed as a heart attack." "....Five mourners were present: Pamela, Siddons, Alan Ronay, Agnes Varda, and Robin Wertle. They threw flowers on the grave and said their goodbyes." (pg. 367, No One Here Gets Out Alive)

"What he (Bill Siddons) did see at Jim and Pamela's flat was a sealed coffin and a death certificate with one doctor's signature. There was no police report, no doctor present. No autopsy had been conducted. All he had was Pamela's word that Jim was dead." (pg. 369, No One Here Gets Out Alive)

- "Who was the doctor? Siddons didn't know; Pamela didn't remember. But signatures can be forged or bought. (pg. 369, No One Here Gets Out Alive)(The doctor was the French medical examiner, Dr. Max Vasille)

- "The Parisians hold out for heroin as the cause of death. Jim had been a regular at the Rock 'n' Roll Circus, the French night spot then known as a haven for the local heroin underground." (pg. 369, No One Here Gets Out Alive)

"...Still, wasn't Jim found in the bathtub, usually the first place an O.D. victim is taken for attempted revival?" (pg. 369, No One Here Gets Out Alive)

Author's Note: Based upon my personal research and hypothesis- Jean de Breteuil, who was Pamela's sometime boyfriend (lover) may in fact be responsible for the death of Jim Morrison. If he indeed sold Morrison the heroin, he is then an accomplice to Jim Morrison's death. Was his intent to overdose Morrison because of his love interest with Pamela? Or was it merely an accidental overdose, we can never know. But, it is interesting to discover that one of the last men seen with Jim Morrison at the time of his death was Pamela's sometime boyfriend. This is my deepest and most heartfelt belief that Jean de Breteuil was in some way directly responsible for the death of Jim Morrison. All of the pieces fit: Pamela was known to be out with the French count doing smack the night of Jim's death. Jim didn't like Jean de Breteuil, but Jean de Breteuil absolutely adored Pamela, and Jean de Breteuil was a known dealer and a very wealthy man with strong connections. He was the one that Pamela called the next morning to say Jim was dead. It doesn't take much to see the connection here: a man with strong connections, lots of money, combined with the power of being a drug dealer, and being in love with someone who is "married" to a rock star who is a foreigner in a visiting country. And on top of all of that, there's no autopsy, a closed casket, a rushed death certificate, and Bill Siddons refusal to see the body. Jean de Breteuil had something to do with the death of Jim Morrison. Another reason why I believe Jean de Breteuil is partly responsible is because I find it rather disturbing that Bill Siddons flew across the United States, across the Atlantic Ocean, and arriving in Paris in the early morning hours only to witness a boarded up casket. He was the manager of the band- The Doors paid his salary. One would think that he'd want to confirm the death of his most prized investment; particularly after flying all that way from Los Angeles. He was paid to keep quiet.

There is also the statement that the first fireman on the scene arrived some time after 8:30AM when Pamela awoke to discover Jim. This fireman is Alain Raisson. According to the fireman, Jim's body was still warm even though the estimated time of death was around 5AM. Now, I'm not a scientist or anything, but I can assure you that bath water would not still be warm after three hours- particularly with a cold, lifeless body lying in it. Reference

And lastly, there is absolutely no way for Jim to pull off a fake death with Pamela's involvement. The gal was an unstable heroin addict, and I find it rather implausible for someone in her mental and emotional incapacity to be able to follow through with a fake death. Besides, she loved him, and I doubt very much she'd let him pull off something like faking his own death.

Author's Note: I want to thank Johanna for this absolutely amazing and utterly haunting video. I think Jim would have loved it. Please take a few moments to watch it.