Which Doors song features the lyric 'The music is your only friend'?

The Doors song featuring the lyric “The music is your only friend” is “Soul Kitchen.” The song appeared on the band’s 1967 debut album, The Doors, and is one of the record’s blues-influenced tracks.

“Soul Kitchen” was inspired by Olivia’s, a Los Angeles restaurant on South La Cienega Boulevard where Jim Morrison reportedly spent time. The restaurant’s owners, Lou and Alice Chevalier, were known for their welcoming atmosphere and home-style cooking. Morrison’s desire to remain there after closing helped inspire the song’s central images of warmth, food, memory, and reluctance to leave.

The lyric belongs to the song’s reflective closing passage, where music becomes a source of companionship and escape. That theme fits Morrison’s writing, which often blended everyday experiences with dreamlike or existential ideas.

Listeners sometimes connect the line with “When the Music’s Over,” another Doors song whose title directly references music. However, “When the Music’s Over” appears on Strange Days, while “Soul Kitchen” is on the band’s first album. The two songs are distinct pieces from the group’s early period.