“You live you die and death not ends it.”

— Jim Morrison

An American Prayer (1978)
Variant: We live, we die
and death not ends it
Context: O great creator of being
grant us one more hour to
perform our art
and perfect our lives The moths & atheists are doubly divine
& dying
We live, we die
and death not ends it

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lead singer of The Doors 1943–1971

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