What the heck was Jim Morrison's Celebration of the Lizard about?

Answer 1

jim morrison -when he wasnt a drunken loud foul mouthed bastard - was a chameleon of talent. he loved art, music and poetry, and he had a penchant for all of it. he molded himself and transformed his arts into what he felt - what does a chameleon do? change with its surroundings. he also loved film and drama - which only made him more of a chameleon.

a chameleon, as you know is a lizard - and they can basically change their color to anything to blend in with it. therefore hence the phrase - I am the Lizard King and i can do anything.' its a shame drugs and alcohol turned him into a jerk and ruined him. i hope this helps.

Answer 2

In morrisons day with his looks and that voice him talking about dirt would of sounded like a song; so the lizard was probably about a lizard or who knows what.,,He was really great to lots of people.

Answer 3

Read this and gather more about Jim:

Born James Douglas Morrison in 1943, the future rock star grew up in Melbourne,Florida. Jim Morrison's upbringing was strict and conservative as the son of a Navy Admiral (Jim's showed us that conservative upbringing is pretty useless). In fact, it was not until college that Morrison even showed an interest in the arts.

After a brief stint at a Florida college, Morrison trekked to UCLA in 1964, where he studied filmmaking with such prestigious classmates as Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas. Among the lesser cinematographic lights in attendance was a young hippie named Ray Manzarek, whose chief claim to fame as a director came from convincing his Swedish girlfriend to pose nude in one of his student films.
Anyways, they recruited Robbie Krieger (on guitar) and John Densmore (on the drums) and formed The Doors, a reference to Aldous Huxley's Doors of Perception.

Morrison's preferred method of opening the "doors of perception" was chemicals, including mainly alcohol and acid (LSD), although he indulged in a buffet meal of anything he could get his hands on — and it being Southern California in the 1960s, that was rather a lot.

Their first single “Break on through” written by Morrison was a big hit. Their second single “Light My Fire” written by Robbie was an even bigger hit. Someone from the record company suggested that Morrison should change lyrics in the song from “Baby you could get much higher” to “get much better” so that it can be aired on National Radio. But Jim just hated authoritarians and the suggestion was thrown out of the window, he in fact screamed out the word “higher” much louder for the radio recording.

In concerts and offstage, Morrison became increasingly antagonistic toward authority figures, and in New Haven, CT, he suffered his first in a series of arrests for "public indecency" in concert. Morrison's drinking increased along with the band's success, and Doors concerts were often marred by his drunken incoherence and the damage alcohol was doing to his singing voice. There were instances when Jim would just pass out on stage and the rest of the band would keep playing and waiting for him to get up. And obviously there was the prolonged chant of “**** the Mother, Kill the Father!” in the song “The End” which not many people appreciated. Doors successfully began undertaking more ambitious musical projects, such as "The Celebration of the Lizard," a half-hour fusion of music, drama and poetry that left crowds stunned into utter silence by its conclusion.


Morrison also became more adept at manipulating crowds; it was not unusual for a Doors concert to end in a near-riot or an over-the-top orgy. Concert hall floors were routinely littered with discarded clothes at the end of a concert, which in turn brought the band under increasing scrutiny by promoters and local authorities.
On a hot night in Miami, in an overbooked concert hall,Morrison's various demons converged to create a spectacle that would haunt the remainder of the Lizard King's days. Drunker than ever, which was saying a lot, Morrison goaded the crowd throughout the concert, at one point directly confronting them with their own adulation for him —

You're all a bunch of ******' idiots.…
Letting people tell you what you're gonna do…..
Let people push you around ...
Maybe you love it.
Maybe you like being pushed around.
Maybe you love getting your face stuck in the ****...

After a long chant of “What are you goanna do about it," Morrison followed up by (allegedly) simulating illicit gestures on band mate Robbie Krieger, and (allegedly) exposing himself to the crowd.

Three days after the concert, the city of Miami filed an arrest warrant for Morrison, charging him with public indecency, profanity and drunkenness.

But nothing was ever goanna hold down the Lizard King. He had the spirit of the dead Indians in him. As a kid Jim witnessed an accident while traveling through the desert and it lest a lasting impression on Jim’s mind.