Expert: JayDixon - 1/4/2009

Question
Hello,would you kindly tell me what the song My Wild Love is about? Is it really about Pam? If it is really about Pam, what do the words "ride" ,"devil" refer to?

Answer
Originally recorded by the Doors with only vocals and percussion, as a group chant led by Jim Morrison. From The Doors third album Waiting For The Sun released July 11 1968.


In all my reading and research I have never discovered who if anyone inspired Morrison to write these lyrics. A lot of Jim’s poems and lyrics came to fruition from many thoughts and many inspirations. Morrison and Pamela Courzon had a very tumultuous relationship and she did burn through money, take off by herself somewhere but always came back, so it is possible that the lyrics you mention could well refer to Pam but I can’t confirm that for sure.

My wild love went riding,
She rode all the day,
She wrote to the Devil,
And asked him to pay.
The Devil was wiser,
It's time to repent.
He asked her to give back
The money she spent.

Jim would often come up with a song inspired from nowhere, here is one example. In 1968 he and Ray Manzarek were walking along a beach talking when a very pretty girl in a bikini passed them without speaking. Jim was so struck by her looks it inspired him to write the song Hello I Love You released later that same year. So My Wild Love may have been inspired by Pam to a degree or by some other woman totally different. The interpretation of his words has long been an enigma and people have devoted a lot of effort into trying to work out meanings and hidden messages etc.

That’s about all I can tell you on this and I hope it’s been of some help.

Cheers,

Jay Dixon
Melbourne Australia