The Doors "The End". “It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me,” is Jim Morrison’s epitaph to his love bond with Mary Werbelow. It’s direct and final. As sung on the breakthrough first Doors album in the summer of 1966. Mary Werbelow was a big part of Jim Morrison's motivation for forming a band in the first place. She was a beautiful woman. Many of Jim's lyrics from the first three Doors albums were purported to be written about her, and their relationship. While he was dating Pamela Courson, he was reaching back to his first true love. Morrison loved Courson on some level, but it was Mary, who was truly his "cosmic love".

"'I'd see him when he really needed to talk to someone.' Before a photo shoot for the Doors' fourth album, she says Jim told her: 'The first three albums are about you. Didn't you know that?' More than once, she says, he asked her to marry. 'It was heartbreaking. I knew I wanted to be with him, but I couldn't.' She thought they were too young. She worried they might grow apart. She needed more time to explore her own identity. In late 1968, Mary moved to India to study meditation. She never saw Jim again."