The Jim Morrison poem that inspired this song was a untitled poem that appeared in Morrison's self-published The Lord's/Notes on Visions book from 1969.
Here is the poem that inspired Iggy Pop's 1977 classic The Passenger.
A room moves over a landscape, uprooting the mind, astonishing vision.
A gray film melts off the eyes, and runs down the cheeks. Farewell.
Modern life is a journey by car.
The Passengers change terribly in their reeking seats, or roam from car to car, subject to unceasing transformation.
Inevitable progress is made toward the beginning (there is no difference in terminals), as we slice through cities, whose ripped backsides present a moving picture of windows, signs, streets, buildings.
Sometimes other vessels, closed worlds, vacuums, travel along beside to move ahead or fall utterly behind.
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