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There is no "complete version" of The End on YouTube. The song is simply too long. The "Full Versions" are clipped, and chop out a lot of great stuff. The Remix is very cool and (Apocalypse Now)is a classic film. There are some live complete versions but none from studio. Please enjoy!

""The End" is a song by The Doors. Originally a song Jim Morrison wrote about breaking up with a long time girlfriend, it evolved through months of performances at Los Angeles' Whisky a Go Go into a nearly 12-minute opus on their self-titled album. The band would perform the song to close their last set. It was first released in January 1967."

"The Doors were an American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles by vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore, and guitarist Robby Krieger. They were one of the most controversial bands of their time, due mostly to Morrison's cryptic lyrics and unpredictable stage persona. Since the band's dissolution in the 1972 — and especially since Morrison's death in 1971 — interest in the Doors' music has remained high, especially from The Morrison Era."
"The band took their name from the title of a book by Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, which was in turn borrowed from a line in a poem by the 18th century artist and poet William Blake: "If the doors of perception were cleansed, every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite"."

"Said Morrison in 1969, "Everytime I hear that song, it means something else to me. It started out as a simple good-bye song probably just to a girl, but I see how it could be a goodbye to a kind of childhood. I really don't know. I think it's sufficiently complex and universal in it's imagery ..."

All the above are quotes from Wikipedia.com

We had a lot of fun doing this "video". We have been musicians for years and have been doing visual art for years as well but we have just recently been involved in attempting to make videos. We hope you enjoy our interpretation of the song and the imigary that it evoked to us. We are learning (albeit slowly) to get better at this. Who knows? Maybe we will put out something really good someday. Until than please enjoy our humble attempts.