The Last Weird Scenes Inside The Goldmine
(Caption: 4 Peaks Wilderness Area, Arizona)
There’s danger on the edge of town
Ride the king’s highway
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway West, baby. ~~~~ The End. The Doors (1967) (hit the link and turn up the volume)
This really is The End (one of my favorite songs).
It’s The Last Picture Show (one of my favorite movies).
I stole the theme for our epic 7 year western roadtrip: “Weird Scenes Inside the Goldmine” from the Doors’ classic song “The End” (hit link above).
That song is even more true today than when Jim Morrison wrote it in 1967:
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
You think that’s twisted? Over the top?
Try thinking about our current Greenhouse Gas Chamber.
Or the openly self declared Israeli ethnic cleansing and Genocide on Gaza (and the West Bank), which is openly supported, funded, and praised by President Biden, the entire US Government, the entire US Congress, and the entire US corporate media, while those calling for a cease fire and peace are denounced as Nazi’s and anti-semites.
Think about the fact that Trump is holding openly fascist rallies and promising “vengeance” – and that he is likely to be re-elected in ’24.
Let all that sink in.
All the adults – not the children – are insane.
Many times, in my green (not blue) bus, I’ve contemplated these lyrics:
The West is the best
The West is the best
Get here and we’ll do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where are you taking us?
Where?
As Johnny Cash sang, “I’ve been everywhere man” (me too!), but right now, the green bus is taking us back east.
We’ll soon be in The Last Picture Show landscapes.
Roadtrip done. Over. Finished.
It hurts to set you free
But you’ll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to dieThis is the end.\