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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

"Hyacinth House" is a song by The Doors which appears on their final album with Morrison 1971's L.A. Woman (of the top 5 all time albums on my personal chart). The music was written by Ray Manzarek, while Morrison wrote the dreary and mysterious lyrics while at guitarist Robby Krieger's beach house.

The lyrics "I see the bathroom is clear / I think that somebody near / I'm sure someone is following me" were taken from a conversation while the band was stoned at Krieger's house. They were thinking someone was in the bathroom because they heard noises. Evidently, Krieger's house was littered with hyacinth plants, thus the song title Hyacinth House.

Many fans suspect that one particular line of this song ("And I'll say it again, I need a brand new friend, the end") shows that Morrison had suicidal thoughts and tendencies. Thus, when he died in Paris in 1971, he consciously overdosed on heroin. However, this theory is mere speculation. (The lyrics themselves echo the song "The End": "my only friend, The End.")

What is evident is the sadness and maturity within Morrison's voice, further enhanced by the acoustics in the studio bathroom, where he recorded most of his vocals for the album.