Cars Hiss By My Window

Song infobox
Name = Cars Hiss By My Window


Artist = 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
Tracks = # "The Changeling"
# "Love Her Madly"
# "Been Down So Long"
# "Cars Hiss By My Window"
# "L.A. Woman"
# "L'America"
# "Hyacinth House"
# "Crawlin' King Snake"
# "The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)"
# "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 may 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.