Lyrics to
Newborn Awakening

This version of Newborn Awakening was released by The Doors in 1978.

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Gently they stir, gently rise
The dead are newborn awakening
With ravaged limbs and wet souls
Gently they sigh in rapt funeral amazement
Who called these dead to dance?
Was it the young woman learning to play the ghost song on her baby grand?
Was it the wilderness children?
Was it the ghost god himself, stuttering, cheering, chatting blindly?
I called you up to anoint the earth
I called you to announce sadness falling like burned skin
I called you to wish you well
To glory in self like a new monster
And now I call you to pray

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About Lyrics and Newborn Awakening by The Doors

When you decide to study the lyrics to Newborn Awakening, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by The Doors. Some of the lyrics to Newborn Awakening have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only The Doors and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Newborn Awakening if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Newborn Awakening" means the words set to the music of Newborn Awakening, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doors. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Newborn Awakening and the lyrics to Newborn Awakening are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doors who came here looking just for the lyrics to Newborn Awakening, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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