Listen to this when
People Are Strange
when everyone feels like a stranger 🎪
Who it's for
Drummer John Densmore recalled Jim Morrison arriving deeply depressed, then returning from a walk with the start of this song; it explores alienation and being an outsider.
Alienated, out of place→Oddly at home in being different
Feelings it meets
What it is
"People Are Strange" is a 1967 song by the Doors, released as a single and on their second album, Strange Days, and written by Jim Morrison and Robby Krieger. Drummer John Densmore recalled that Morrison arrived in a very low mood, went for a walk through Laurel Canyon, and came back in much better spirits with early lyrics.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Age: All ages
You smiled and talked to me of nothing and I felt that for this I had been waiting long.Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds, no. 42
