Jim was largely inspired by the life of Rimbau, and had once joked about using the name Mr. Josh from Bemidji, MnArthur Rimbau faked his death to become a gun runner in Africa.if Jim wanted to sing about 'the lord' he would've written freaking gospel music. Nady from Adelaide, Australiaonce again, someone has dragged religious mumbo-jumbo into this.Apparently, Jim believed he was of Moorish decent (Morrison meant Moor's son) so the last line of the song "Remember when we were in Africa?" could be a reference to his family's history, culminating with Jim, the Wild Child. David from Woburn, MaAccording to Stephen Davis' book about Jim, he traveled to Morocco several times from 1969-1970.Just saying, another link to the black experience. With all the protesting on racism taking place today and the abundance of diversity in who is protesting might we see the "Wild Child" that Jim was hoping for? The song following Wild Child on this album is Runnin Blue, a tribute to Otis Redding. Of course all of this is just my opinion. That's what Jim is asking in relation to Africa. Their ancestors involvement in the African slave trade has resulted in inequality and the social conditions of the day and the need for civil rights, a moral cause that you never fully committed to. Lastly, at the end of the song and the "Africa" question is the final admonishment of the privileged wild child. In the middle of the song there is so much drive towards hope (hunger at her heals, freedom in her eyes) but inevitably the realization of the wild child is that of superficiality and hypocrisy motivated solely by a "Lizard King" persona. In the first verse of "Wild Child" he says it in a mockingly sarcastic manner. He similarly admonishes the peace-loving flower child of the mid-60's in the song "Five to One". Jim points out the beautiful potentials of the wild child but as was the case they only went so far. Consequently the priority of the civil rights movement was lessened. Towards the latter 60's things had changed assassinations of leaders, the anti-war movement, political strife and civil unrest had refocused the priorities of protesting. Civil rights was at its zenith in the 60's and in the early years there were many white youth committed to the movement some even loosing their lives. He alludes to this in certain songs like "Soul Kitchen" and "Hello, I Love You". During Jim's early days when he was "starving" he found refuge in minority communities, particularly African American. I think Jim is admonishing the 60's protesting "wild child" for not fully pursuing social change. From then on he was labeled as a "troublemaker" and constantly watched by the authorities. It might explain what led to Jim's actions in Miami and eventual arrest. This often happens in entertainment and leads to severe frustration or sometimes worse. People then were interested in Jim performing his crazy antics and acting the fool on stage instead of taking him seriously as a poet. There's no question at this time of Jim's life he was well versed in poetry and was yearning to be recognized as an accomplished poet by all, most importantly his audience. from Brentwood, New YorkConsidering the few lyrical discrepancies in Wild Child (An ancient rulage of grains.An ancient lunatic reigns.or a hollow idols eyes.Apollo idols eyes) I think Jim at the end of the song isn't screaming "Your Cool Face" but rather "Your Two Faced". Pirate prince ~ womanizer.Īlso, the lines "She dances on her knees", "A pirate prince at her side", ".cool face", and "Starrin' into the hollow idol's eye" seem to me to be describing a b-wjob. Pirate in this context might mean a thief that stole someone's virginity.
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