Released November 1978 Label Elektra | Length 4:13 Writer(s) Jim Morrison | |
Recorded 1970 (spoken word)
1978 (music) Genre Funk rock, spoken word, poetry | ||
"The Ghost Song" is a song by The Doors, and was released on An American Prayer in 1978, 7 years after Jim Morrison's death in Paris, France. The song, as with the whole album, is a posthumous putting to music of Morrison's own recordings of his poetry by the rest of the band.
Part of the lyrics to the song, beginning with "Indians scattered on dawn's highway, bleeding", refer to a self-described childhood experience of Jim Morrison's, where he and his family were driving down a desert highway and passed a mutli-fatal road accident where trucks loaded with Indian workers had collided. According to Morrison, when he thought about that experience, he felt that the souls of the dead Native American workers "leaped into my soul and they're still there".