The Spy - The Doors - MP3 instrumental karaoke

Psychedelic rock pioneers The Doors released a number of enduring chart-topping hits around the beginning of the 1970s. With their third album, Morrison Hotel (1970), the group found themselves returning to their traditional blues-rock sound, scaling back from the ornate maximalism of 1969’s The Soft Parade. A great example of this return to their roots is the track “The Spy,” a song off Morrison Hotel that showcases this back-to-basics approach. A blues-influenced song with a decidedly low-tempo and an off-kilter bassline, “The Spy” slowly unfurls into a more psychedelic blues number. The song’s lyrics deal with the relationship between frontman Jim Morrison and his girlfriend Pamela Courson, where Morrison poses himself as “the spy,” implying a lack of trust in the relationship. The song was written by Jim Morrison and produced by Paul A. Rothchild. Though sometimes included in Greatest Hits compilations, “The Spy” was not released as a promotional single for Morrison Hotel.