He was a door, opened up wider than it was before He opened it up to heaven, he opened it up to hell And his soul walked through it somewhere in the middle A limbo he knew so well He was just Jim, whoa Beautiful Jim
He was adored But super-stardom left him cold It made him kind of bored He wasn't what the girls made him out to be Just cared about his whisky and his poetry was just him Whoa, Beautiful Jim
So far away 'City of light' where you chose to stay Far from L. A. 'City of light' where your fire burns today
He is no more But I'm sure he's been to where he is now many times before He's taken a trip to heaven He's taken a trip to hell
And his soul's a-lingering somewhere in the middle, a limbo he knew so well He was just Jim, whoa Beautiful Jim
So far away 'City of Iight' where you chose to stay Far from L. A. 'City of light' where your fire burns today