Hyacinth House

[3] Morrison recorded his vocals in the studio's bathroom for the isolation it provided and for the reverberation of the tiled walls.

[6] However, the music has also been attributed to keyboardist Ray Manzarek, which references Frédéric Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat major, Op.

[8][10] The song refers to the mythological Hyacinth, who was a beautiful youth and a lover of the Greek god Apollo.

Rather, from the dead man's blood, Apollo created the hyacinth, a plant with a fragrant cluster of flowers.

"[10][11] In a PopMatters review of the 40th Anniversary edition of L.A. Woman, Nathan Wisnicki commented that Jim Morrison's delivery in "Hyacinth House" is "a bit lethargic and flaccid", also describing some of the song's lyrics as "laughable".