Lyrics to
Cars Hiss By My Window

This version of Cars Hiss By My Window was released by The Doors in 1971.

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The cars hiss by my window
Like the waves down on the beach
The cars hiss by my window
Like the waves down on the beach
I got this girl beside me
But she’s out of reach

Headlight through my window
Shinin’ on the wall
Headlight through my window
Shinin’ on the wall
Can’t hear my baby
Though I called and called

Yeah, right
Woo!

Windows started tremblin’
With a sonic boom
Windows started tremblin’
With a sonic boom, boom
A cold girl’ll kill you
In a darkened room

Yeah, woo
Ride
Ride on
Weooooo!
Wawa, eooo!
Oooo, owa, owaaa!
Wa, waaaaea!
Ooo, wa, wa, wa, wa, waa!
Uh-huh

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About Lyrics and Cars Hiss By My Window by The Doors

The lyrics to Cars Hiss By My Window are just the words, phrases, verses and chorus that The Doors used when the song was created in 1971. The lyrics to Cars Hiss By My Window have both easy-to-spot meanings and hidden metaphors that have been discussed by the music press and fans, but only The Doors and any collaborators know all of the inspirations for the song.

If you like etymology or breaking apart phrases and words, it is easy to understand the lyrics to Cars Hiss By My Window by The Doors. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Cars Hiss By My Window" means the words set to the music of Cars Hiss By My Window, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by The Doors. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Cars Hiss By My Window and the lyrics to Cars Hiss By My Window are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of The Doors who came here looking just for the lyrics to Cars Hiss By My Window, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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