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Hyacinth House

This version of Hyacinth House was released by The Doors in 1971.

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What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?
What are they doing in the Hyacinth House?
To please the lions this day

I need a brand new friend who doesn’t bother me
I need a brand new friend who doesn’t trouble me
I need someone, yeah, who doesn’t need me

I see the bathroom is clear
I think that somebody’s near
I’m sure that someone is following me, oh yeah

Why did you throw the Jack of Hearts away?
Why did you throw the Jack of Hearts away?
It was the only card in the deck that I had left to play

And I’ll say it again, I need a brand new friend
And I’ll say it again, I need a brand new friend
And I’ll say it again, I need a brand new friend, the end

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About Lyrics and Hyacinth House by The Doors

The lyrics for Hyacinth House are made up of the words, verses and background chorus for the popular 1971 song by The Doors. Like a lot of songs, the lyrics to Hyacinth House have both direct meanings and metaphorical context hidden within the song's words. All of the meanings are only truly known by the creators of the lyrics for Hyacinth House - The Doors and any of the writers who worked with them on the song.

If you have an interest in the structure of words and phrases, you can dissect the lyrics to Hyacinth House by The Doors in multiple ways. 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 Hyacinth House" means the words set to the music of Hyacinth House, 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 Hyacinth House and the lyrics to Hyacinth House 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 Hyacinth House, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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