The Crystal Ship

"The Crystal Ship"
side-B label
Side B of the original US single
Single by the Doors
from the album The Doors
A-side"Light My Fire"
ReleasedApril 1967 (1967-04)
RecordedAugust 1966
Genre
Length2:30
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)Jim Morrison
Producer(s)Paul A. Rothchild
The Doors singles chronology
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)"
(1967)
"The Crystal Ship"
(1967)
"People Are Strange"
(1967)

"The Crystal Ship" is a song by American rock band the Doors, from their 1967 debut album The Doors, and the B-side of the number-one hit single "Light My Fire". It was composed as a love song to Jim Morrison's first serious girlfriend, Mary Werbelow, shortly after their relationship ended.

The song borrows from elements from baroque music.[2] The lyrics in the opening verse resemble a conventional love song, while the later verses are vague in intention and contain more challenging imagery. A music video was later compiled from footage of the band performing on American Bandstand, coupled with film of Morrison and Pamela Courson at Kern River, near Bakersfield, California.

  1. ^ Womack 2009, p. 93.
  2. ^ Jones 2015, p. 52.