Okay, hear me out.  I’m throwing this blog together without giving it much thought, because, well…I just have to make sure I’m not completely crazy.  Or, you know…more crazy than I already believe myself to be.

I was listening to some tunes recently.  In particular, a bunch of songs on my Spotify playlist of Vietnam War-era songs.  Anyway, the Doors classic “The End” comes on.  If you aren’t familiar with it, well…okay, here’s a YouTube link with the lyrics (which, as it turns out, might be helpful for what’s to come.)

I’m sitting here listening to this thing and a really strange, and seemingly far-fetched theory starts to manifest itself, and it’s so nutzo that I can’t shake it.  So indulge me as I explain my latest crackpot fan theory.  Ready?  Here it goes.

The lyrics to The End at least partially influenced the story of George R.R. Martin’s epic “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, which many of you know as the book version of “Game of Thrones” (the very popular HBO series.)

No, really.

So without any further forethought (I’m seriously doing this before I over-think it and think better of it) here are the lyrics to Jim Morrison’s epic song and how it relates to GRRM’s epic tale.  I’ve made my notes in red.

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This is the end

Beautiful friend

This is the end

My only friend, the end

Of our elaborate plans, the end

Of everything that stands, the end

No safety or surprise, the end

I’ll never look into your eyes…again

(The coming of Winter and the White Walkers)

Can you picture what will be

So limitless and free

Desperately in need…of some…stranger’s hand

In a…desperate land

(The Stranger represents death and the unknown in pantheon of The Seven. He leads the Dead into the underworld)

Lost in a Roman…wilderness of pain

And all the children are insane

All the children are insane

Waiting for the summer rain, yeah

(Children of the Forest? Waiting for the Summer Rain that will come after the long winter.)

There’s danger on the edge of town

Ride the King’s highway, baby

Weird scenes inside the gold mine

Ride the highway west, baby

(The Kingsway. Also, “The Gold Mine” could be Casterly Rock)

Ride the snake, ride the snake

To the lake, the ancient lake, baby

The snake is long, seven miles

Ride the snake…he’s old, and his skin is cold

(Snake=Dragon. A lake called “The Womb of the World” lies near Vaes Dothrak. Vaes Dothrak translates to “City of Riders”)

The west is the best

The west is the best

Get here, and we’ll do the rest

(Westeros)

The blue bus is callin’ us

The blue bus is callin’ us

Driver, where you taken’ us

(Possibly the Blue Graces, the Blue Winter Rose of Winterfell, The Blue Bard, or even Daario Naharis, who sports a three-pronged beard dyed blue in the novels.  Also ‘Daario Naharis’ almost sounds like ‘blue bus’ if you’re ridiculously stoned, I suppose.)

The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on

He took a face from the ancient gallery

And he walked on down the hall

(The assassins who serve the Many Faced God in the House of Black and White)

He went into the room where his sister lived, and…then

(Jaime and Cersei Lannister? Or is this Tyrion’s POV?)

he Paid a visit to his brother, and then he

He walked on down the hall, and

And he came to a door…and he looked inside

Father, yes son, I want to kill you

(Tyrion again?)

Mother…I want to…fuck you

(Sweetrobin in the Vale? Or a reference to the Mother of Dragons?)

C’mon baby, take a chance with us

C’mon baby, take a chance with us

C’mon baby, take a chance with us

And meet me at the back of the blue bus

Doin’ a blue rock

On a blue bus

Doin’ a blue rock

C’mon, yeah

Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill

This is the end

Beautiful friend

This is the end

My only friend, the end

It hurts to set you free

But you’ll never follow me

(Jaime releasing Tyrion, or Dany and her dragons?  Theon and Jeyne/Sansa?)

The end of laughter and soft lies

The end of nights we tried to die

This is the end

(And now his watch is ended.)

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Well, it’s fun, anyway, to think that way back when George was first contemplating a new fantasy world in which to set his masterpiece, maybe he smoked an enormous bowl and listened to The End.  Hell, maybe he tripped acid and watched Apocalypse Now.  We’ll never know for sure.  Or maybe he’ll explain it all in the afterward to the last book in this series. HA!!  GOTCHA!  THERE WON’T BE A FINAL BOOK!  HAHA! HAHAHAHAAAAAAAA!

Oh, now I’m sad.