The Break On Through Podcast

Break On Through to The Other Side

Richard Lyons
For me, this poem is about breaking through to the other side of our limited concepts about life into a clearer, freer, unlimited way of being as Jim said in one of his other poems, "Can you picture what will be so limitless and free."The concept behind the song is that we all have the innate potential to break through our own limitations in life and or transcend them.The song Break On Through was the first song on The Doors first album and also their first single which in itself says a lot because the name of the band was based on a quote by William Blake "When the doors of perception are cleansed everything would appear to man as it is infinite". This points to a breakthrough in consciousness which is the basis of the song.