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From their second album, Strange Days, this is track 2 of side one. One of a number of Doors songs I especially like because of the haunting, almost ghostly floating rhythm and tempo. This haunting quality can be found on earlier songs like “Moonlight Drive,“ “Not to Touch the Earth,“ “Summer's Almost Gone“, “End of the Night,“ and others. “Lost“ of course makes me think of the David Lynch film, Lost Highway (1997). “Lost“ also makes me think of actress Marilyn Monroe, a lost little girl in so many films and in real life. “Lost“ also makes me think of tragedy, of death of someone young (Marilyn again). “Highway“ makes me think of the road another lost girl perished on: actress Jayne Mansfield. This video is about Marilyn and Jayne, often compared to one another, yet both entirely different. If you believe the accounts of those who actually saw Marilyn Monroe placed in an ambulance in which she died en route to hospital (then her body later placed in bed back at her home to make it appear she died there), then she died on the lost highway, just as assuredly as Jayne Mansfield did in a tragic vehicular crash. Both were lost in a Hollywood dream that ended in two distinctly different nightmares.
