Love Me Two Times

Doors guitarist Robby Krieger wrote this song after their keyboard player Ray Manzarek implored the band members to go home and write some songs. Krieger came up with "Love Me Two Times" and "Light My Fire" in about an hour. Jim Morrison wrote most Doors lyrics, but not all: Krieger typically had two or three songs on each album with his lyrics. The band split credits equally, so every member is credited on every song.

Krieger's lyrics were inspired by both The Doors going on the road and American soldiers going to Vietnam. The theme is sex as a way to survive in strange times, and the need to be "loved two times" before going away. Keyboard player Ray Manzarek called it, "Robby's great blues/rock classic about love and loss, or multiple orgasms."

Through most of the song, Jim Morrison left off the "s" in "two times," creating a double meaning to the phrase.