My Wild Love

"My Wild Love"
Song by The Doors from the album Waiting for the Sun
Released	July 11, 1968
Recorded	1968
Genre	Psychedelic rock
Length	3:01
Label	Elektra, Asylum
Writer	Jim Morrison Ray Manzarek Robbie Krieger John Densmore
Producer	Paul A. Rothchild
Waiting for the Sun track listing
"Spanish Caravan" (7) "My Wild Love" (8) "We Could Be So Good Together" (9)

"My Wild Love" is a song written by all the members of The Doors. It is included in their third album Waiting for the Sun (1968) and it is their only song performed in a capella. Jim Morrison's vocals are backed up by the band members vocals, performing different sorts of sounds with their mouths and clapping hands. The style evidently refers to African American work songs in its severity and simplicity. The structure of the verse is based on call-and-response scheme. There are also typical blues motifs in lyrics.

According to the book No One Here Gets Out Alive, "My Wild Love" was improvised in the studio because additional songs were needed on short notice after the 17 minute track "The Celebration of the Lizard" was scrapped. The song has a spoken-word style that is similar "Whiskey, Mystics & Men", which was recorded during sessions for The Soft Parade but was not officially released until its inclusion on The Doors: Box Set in 1997.

Lyrics

The lyrics have been discussed and the song has no distinct explanation. Some claims that it touches upon Morrison's long-term companion: Pamela Courson's heroin addiction. "My love went riding, she rode all the day" should then be a Euphemism for the use of the drug. The following part of the song that reads "She wrote to the devil And asked him to pay. The devil was wiser. It's time to repent. He asked her to give back The money she spent." should then touch upon the remorse she would feel after using the drug, and the devil would be a symbol for the drug.

Another simple theory is that the song is based on one of Morrison's LSD-hallucinations.