anonymous June 18th, 2006 08:36PM  
I think this song is this song is about life. I think they are saying that in life we are like riders on a storm. like we have to tough it out. I think when he says "theres a killer on the road" he's saying there are dangers in life and if you give them a ride(let them happen) you and people around you(family) will suffer. I think when he says "like a dog without a bone into this world were thrown" he means we all we start out with close to nothing (at least most of us) and we only get out of life what we take. I think when he says "take a long holiday, let your children play" he is saying life is too short so enjoy you family and have fun. overall this song is about life.

anonymous August 24th, 2006 08:27PM  
What this song always meant to me was something far more cosmic and something that cannot be explained into words. To listen to this song you must first get into the mindset of the time and take into account that it was the last song they ever made with Jim. To me this song has always been the departure point and has a really soft almost lonely feel that's really dark. It's as if he knew what was to come in that followed until his so called demise and that he had almost given up.

anonymous August 27th, 2006 09:11PM  
This song sort of implies that we are all riding on the bridge of an impending disaster... From the "killer on the road", to the plea "girl you gotta love your man", it's all about how there's always this turning point between life and death and about living on the edge of this precipice... Riding on the coming storm.

What the last person said adds perspective to this... It's a song about impending doom, and being able to see the approaching end of all things.

anonymous February 20th, 2007 12:14PM  
You got to choose what road to go down in life. and how there is going to be temptations that you have to refuse. And that everyone is lost and caught up in this bs.

j2whoami May 16th, 2007 07:32AM  
The song starts with a common state....where all people are same..."Into this house we were born...into this world we were thrown...Like a dog without a bone ...an actor out on loan"....But then it transits into a broader sense....some of us couldn't gather anything from this world...no love..only hatred....at this part of the song you can have two point of view...as a commoner...or a killer hitch-hiker..jim has given us options..to choose from...personally I think jim tries to tell that with a slight change of fate we can easily slip into the other side....so much helpless and vulnerable we are...in this mean world...so at the end we are all like a "dog without a bone" and "an actor out on loan" throughout our whole life.....jim believes only love and company can give us solace in this long journey of life.so the lines.........
"girl you gotta love your man
take him by the hand
make him understand
the world on you depends
our life will never end"

anonymous May 17th, 2007 06:16PM  
Just to add I think the line riders on the storm and into this world were thrown refer yet again to the crash site he witnessed as a kid.

oldsoul July 22nd, 2007 08:56AM  
It's about life yes but the part "into this world we're thrown, like a dog without a bone and actor without a loan" is about we are born into this world expected to know what to do and do it the right way. It's about the journys in life it's dangers and that you make you own destiny and if you give that man a ride sweet memories will die. He's telling us to choose what path to take wisely. Because there is a "killer" on the road. Think about it.

anonymous October 31st, 2007 03:49PM  
If you watch the movie you would understand. yes not everything in movies are correct. but it does tell you that he wrote it about his childhood. when he was with him family. and on the side of the road he saw a "freak" car accident. and eversense then he had "hallucinations" of indians. I don't really remember much more. but. That's it hehe

rockfacts February 1st, 2008 05:55AM  
A man can become a killer without a strong woman and love.

anonymous July 23rd, 2008 01:38PM  
The "killer on the road" is about Billy Cook who killed a family when they picked him up hitchhiking

JasmineStar August 11th, 2009 09:20AM  
I agree with those who suggest the "killer on the road" is to do with the car accident Jim is said to have witnessed as child. Some say the native american passing over stepped into Jim's body at that time, and that the lyrics we here are those of the native american shaman. Others might say that Jim became a voice at times for the person killed in the road accident. The message does seem to be about loving your family, enjoying and appreciating life, and to "ride" the storms that life sends you, but be careful of dangers and stay strong. The song has shamanic undertones, not just because of the lyrics, the wind in the background and the sense of going on an internal as well as an external journey reflect this.

anonymous October 17th, 2009 12:02AM  
"Into this world we're thrown" is a direct reference to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. "Thrownness", as Heidegger terms it, is used to describe human being's lack of agency in terms of existence. Dasein does not choose to exist, it is "thrown" into existence, into a referential totality of meaning that is always already in place. Coming to terms with "thrownness" is accepting the finitude of existence. That is where Morrison's going with this particular concept.It fits in well with the song "The End" as reflective of Morrison's recognition of death as being the closure of Dasein's possibilities and the inevitable end.