{"id":2259,"date":"2026-05-29T09:39:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:39:27","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T13:39:27","slug":"how-l-a-woman-became-jim-morrisons-farewell-letter-to-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/articles\/how-l-a-woman-became-jim-morrisons-farewell-letter-to-los-angeles\/","title":{"rendered":"How \u201cL.A. Woman\u201d Became Jim Morrison\u2019s Farewell Letter to Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.songfacts.com\/facts\/the-doors\/la-woman\">\u201cL.A. Woman\u201d<\/a>, Jim Morrison humanizes Los Angeles over an eight-minute blues jam. It became the title track of the final album he\u2019d record with The Doors during his lifetime. The verses he writes to a lonely woman he describes in metaphor feel, in hindsight, like parts of a goodbye note. He didn\u2019t know it then, but that\u2019s exactly what it was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>\u2018City Of Night\u2019<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"L.A. Woman\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vHXjcdNIN-Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cL.A. Woman\u201d was inspired by John Rechy\u2019s 1963 gay novel, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/109713.City_of_Night?ref=nav_sb_ss_4_13\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">City Of Night<\/a><\/em>, which follows a narrator who hustles in city corners with seedy characters. Morrison similarly navigates Los Angeles here, exploring the depths of the city\u2019s allure, burning hills, and, as he howls, murder and madness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Motel, money, murder, madness,<br>Let\u2019s change the mood from glad to sadness<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joan Didion, writing about The Doors in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/421\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The White Album<\/a><\/em>, said, \u201cThe Doors were the Norman Mailers of the Top Forty, missionaries of apocalyptic sex.\u201d To further her point, Morrison repeats the line \u201cMr. Mojo Risin\u2019\u201d in gyrating blues while the drummer John Densmore increases the song\u2019s tempo to mimic an orgasm. Sex, obviously, but Morrison also places himself in the scene, rearranging the letters of his name into a phallic anagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>L.A. 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Months later, in a bathtub in his Paris apartment, he was found dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Photo by Michael Ochs Archives\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cL.A. 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