- Easy Ride
Infobox Single
Name = Easy Ride
Artist =The Doors
from Album =The Soft Parade
A-side = "Tell All the People "
Released = 1969
Format = 7"
Recorded = February-May 1968
Genre = Rock
Length = 2:43
Label = Elektra
Writer =Jim Morrison
Producer =Paul Rothchild
Certification =
Chart position = * #57 (U.S. Hot 100)
Last single = "Wishful Sinful "
(1969)
This single = "Tell All The People "
(1969)
Next single = "Runnin' Blue "
(1969)"Easy Ride" is a song byThe Doors , from their 1969 albumThe Soft Parade . It was written by lead singerJim Morrison , who, apparently (source:No One Here Gets Out Alive ) hoped it would be released as a single A-side as well. Perhaps surprisingly, given that a grand total of four singles were lifted from the nine-song album, "Easy Ride" wasn't among them. Instead it ended up on the B-side of theTell All The People single, released in 1967, which reached #57 in the US charts.The lyrics of "Easy Ride" are more direct than many of Morrisons other songs, but in the last stanza, he delivers a set of more poetic phrases: "Coda queen now be my bride / rage in darkness by my side / seize the summer in your pride / take the winter in your stride / let's ride".
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