The Unknown Soldier
The Doors(1968)
Album: Waiting For The Sun

“The Unknown Soldier” was the first single from The Doors’
1968 album Waiting for the Sun,The song was Jim Morrison’s reaction to the Vietnam
War and the way that conflict was portrayed in American media at the time. Lines such as,
“Breakfast where the news is read/Television children fed/unborn living, living dead/bullets strike the helmet’s head”,
illustrate the way news of the war was being presented in the living rooms of ordinary people.

The Unknown Soldier

Lyrics:

Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older
The unknown soldier

Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Unborn living, living, dead
Bullet strikes the helmet's head

And it's all over
For the unknown soldier
It's all over
For the unknown soldier

Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Comp'nee
Halt
Preeee-zent!
Arms!

Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder
The unknown soldier

Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Bullet strikes the helmet's head

And, it's all over
The war is over
It's all over
The war is over
Well, all over, baby
All over, baby
Oh, over, yeah
All over, baby
Wooooo, hah-hah
All over
All over, baby
Oh, woa-yeah
All over
All over
Heeeeyyyy