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This is the quintessential Doors song.
Vivid with exceptional imagery, drug use metaphor, psychedelic musical composition, and amazing vocals, this is a great example of everything The Doors do the best, and all on the same track.
Jim Morrison was way into his psychedelics, and this is most likely a reference on LSD use, and the presumption that it helps users to have that breakthrough… Getting out of (social) reality, drawing new connections and acquiring a clearer image of what’s going on. After such an epiphany, one could claim that they passed on to the other side.
It’s worth mentioning that the name The Doors itself, was inspired by Aldous Huxley’s novel The Doors of Perception which contains accounts of the author’s mescaline trips. Aldous Huxley borrowed the title of his book from a stanza in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
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He goes from detailing his relationships with Spanish girls, to those with French girls.
Ooh-la-la is a french expression of pleasure, so it is likely that Gambino is tlaking about pleasing a french girl.
This is confirmed later in the line, when he says he’s on the French Rivera, a famous coastline landmark.
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‘Be as you were’ is a common order in the military, meaning to be at ease, or to relax.
Jonny is telling the subject of the song that it is okay for them to be themselves around him, he’s not looking to be impressed.
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He compares his jewelry to the cost of drugs
His earrings are so expensive that they’re the same price as 10 kilos of cocaine.
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The weed he smokes and sells is so strong-smelling, that you can smell it all the way from Rio de Janiero, a Brazillian city, which is reported by many to smell terrible.
So, not only is the pot very far away, but it is still smellable through the stench of Rio.
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He’s so rich that the only thing he carries is $100 bills, everything else is insignificant to him.
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Ajax is a popular brand of bleach and ammonia, both cleaning products
His money is so ‘dirty’ that he needs extreme cleaning products to wash it off.
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This is a continuation of the last line.
His watch has just as much ‘ice’ (diamonds) as Siberia, which is the area that encompasses almost all of the extremely frigid North Asia.
