The author who wrote Jim's biography says:

I can still remember the first Doors concert I went to, scared to the very depth of my thirteen year old soul, thinking: This guy is dangerous. Someone's gonna get hurt, probably him. Or me. Or all of us. No one here gets out alive he sang in the song, 'five to one' and when you confront that sort of fear-or the unholy terror a song like 'The End' can engender-something inside you shifts. Confronting the end, eternity blinks. Thant concert changed my Life. I still don't know exactly what happened to me back in 1967. But, I know it was transcendent.

When the music was over (s0ng), there was a stillness, a serenity, a connection with Life and a confirmation of existence. In showing us the Hell, the doors took us to heaven. In evoking death, they made us feel alive. By confronting our sense of hopelessness and sorrow they led us to freedom. Or at least they tried.