The Doors - Love Street Lyrics Meaning

"Love Street" is not a love song. It's an angry, sarcastic question rhetorically asked by Jim Morrison, chafing at what amounted to a love triangle between Morrison, his main girlfriend Pamela Courson (who had an "open" relationship), and one of her other lovers, a young French aristocrat. The writer points out that though he's given his lover a house and garden, expensive clothes, and one of the coolest addresses on the planet , he'd like to see what she does with this opportunity, other than use her comfort and position to continue to associate with people he doesn't like or respect. He calls his lover's associates "monkeys" and "lazy diamond-studded flunkies". It's been said the last line was originally written to say "junkies", but changed it to "flunkies" because the former was considered a blatant reference to drug use and wouldn't have gotten past the music industry censors. My guess is, though, the ire and sarcasm was directed toward one of his lover's friends in particular, the young French Count Jean de Breteuil, a.k.a., "Heroin Dealer to the Stars". He writes, "I'd like to see what happens", and of course what happened was, within two or three years, both Morrison and de Breteuil were dead of heroin overdoses, and within 5 years, so was Pamela. By the way, some who were there at the time, have said that it was de Breteuil's heroin that killed Morrison, and it may not have been entirely an accident. So, I think of "Love Street" as a dark premonition, more than anything.