THE DOORS - FIVE TO ONE

FIVE TO ONE

THE DOORS

SONGWRITER: JIM MORRISON

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: WAITING FOR THE SUN

LABEL: ELEKTRA RECORDS

GENRE: ROCK PSICODÉLICO

YEAR: 1968

"Five to One" is a song by The Doors, from their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun.

The song's most famous performance was at the 1969 Miami concert at the Dinner Key Auditorium. Towards the end of the performance, a drunken Morrison declared the audience "idiots" and "slaves". The concert would end with Morrison being accused of "attempting to incite a riot" among the concert goers, resulting in his arrest, and later conviction, for indecent exposure. This performance can be heard on Disc 1 of The Doors: Box Set and is depicted in Oliver Stone's film The Doors.

During the reunion of the original lineup of The Doors sans Jim Morrison on VH1 Storytellers, Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots took up vocals. Before the performance Robby Krieger said Weiland was one of the few frontmen who could "fill Jim's leather pants". Scott said that "Five to One" was what inspired him to begin a career in rock music.

Yeah, c'mon

Love my girl

She lookin' good

C'mon

One more

Five to one, baby

One in five

No one here gets out alive, now

You get yours, baby

I'll get mine

Gonna make it, baby

If we try

The old get old

And the young get stronger

May take a week

And it may take longer

They got the guns

But we got the numbers

Gonna win, yeah

We're takin' over

Come on!

Yeah!

Your ballroom days are over, baby

Night is drawing near

Shadows of the evening crawl across the years

Ya walk across the floor with a flower in your hand

Trying to tell me no one understands

Trade in your hours for a handful dimes

Gonna' make it, baby, in our prime

Come together one more time

Get together one more time

Get together one more time

Get together, aha

Get together one more time!

Get together one more time!

Get together one more time

Get together one more time

Get together, gotta, get together

Ohhhhhhhh!

Hey, c'mon, honey

You won't have a long wait for me, baby

I'll be there in just a little while

You see, I gotta go out in this car with these people and...

Get together one more time

Get together one more time

Get together, got to

Get together, got to

Get together, got to

Take you up in my room and...

Hah-hah-hah-hah-hah

Love my girl

She lookin' good, lookin' real good

Love ya, c'mon.