And when we're playing "Closer Walk" or anything like that, I mean, and we go from that to an upbeat, uplifting song and they could feel it, you know, and they react to it.

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"I like the fact that it's a fun song, " Shepherd says.

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But I like the fact that, you know, a classic song can have relevance today, you know.

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"I'd never heard lyrics to a rock song like that before, " Manzarek told Billboard in 1967.

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But you know, I felt like, you know, this is really like a jazz version of that song.

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Mr. MELOY: It's basically an exercise in trying to write the biggest song I possibly could involving as many elephants and camels and palanquins and things like that.

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You know, the Van Morrison song, I love, I love, I love, and he keeps repeating it like that.

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