The Lost Paris Tapes is the title given to a recorded collection of unedited poems and songs by rock musician and poet Jim Morrison, lead singer of the Doors.

The title of the collection is however a misnomer, because the bulk of the recordings were made in Los Angeles in February 1969; long before Morrison traveled to Paris.

An almost identical copy of the February 1969 original recording with the very same track listings, that had been in Morrison's possession during his final stay in Paris, was given to composer Fred Myrow in May of 1969.

[2]The bootleg also contains Earth, Air, Fire, Water, a poetry piece taken from Feast of Friends, a film produced by Paul Ferrara, Jim Morrison, and the Doors,[3] as well as Dawn's Highway and Phone Booth, both taken from HWY: An American Pastoral.

[5] Previously it had been believed the later segment of the tape featuring an apparently drunken Morrison playing around in a studio with two equally inebriated "American street musicians" was recorded in Paris due to the ever changing promotional storytelling Philippe Dalecky, who came into possession of a number of Morrison's belongings, was telling.

A writer for Rolling Stone magazine, believing this to be the final recordings by Morrison, later called this piece: An astounding version of ... [an] unfinished, unrealized paean to his old lady (Pamela Courson) that had been rejected from at least two Doors albums ....