Cars Hiss By My Window

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“Cars Hiss By My Window”
Song by The Doors
Album L.A. Woman
Released April, 1971
Recorded December 1970 - January 1971
Genre Blues-rock
Length 4:13
Label Elektra Records
Writer Jim Morrison
Robby Krieger
Ray Manzarek
John Densmore
Producer The Doors
Bruce Botnick
L.A. Woman track listing
  1. "The Changeling)"
  2. "Love Her Madly"
  3. "Been Down So Long"
  4. "Cars Hiss By My Window"
  5. "LA Woman"
  6. "L'America"
  7. "Hyacinth House"
  8. "Crawlin' King Snake"
  9. "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)"
  10. "Riders On The Storm"

Cars Hiss by My Window is a song by American rock band The Doors, from the album L.A. Woman. The song is a standard blues style song and it features guitarist Robby Krieger's bluesy guitar. It depicts a melancholy feel and singer Jim Morrison shows his feelings of life passing him by. The end of the song features what many think is a harmonica solo, when it is in fact Jim Morrison doing his best to mimic the sound of one.

On the 2007 re-issue of the L.A. Woman album, a previously unheard verse was added (or rather, not edited out), making the song almost 5 minutes in length. The Doors used edits extensively on their albums; evident on the Absolutely Live album, the American Prayer album, the Light My Fire single and the two different versions of Who Scared You?, and with the re-issued version, this was the first time fans were able to hear the unedited track in toto.