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The Crystal Ship is een nummer van de Amerikaanse band The Doors. Het nummer verscheen als de derde track op hun debuutalbum The Doors uit 1967. Tevens werd het uitgebracht op de B-kant van de single Light My Fire.

"The Crystal Ship" is a song by American rock band the Doors, from their 1967 debut album The Doors, and the B-side of the number-one hit single "Light My Fire". It was composed as a love song to Jim Morrison's first serious girlfriend, Mary Werbelow, shortly after their relationship ended.

The song borrows from elements from baroque music. The lyrics in the opening verse resemble a conventional love song, while the later verses are vague in intention and contain more challenging imagery. A music video was later compiled from footage of the band performing on American Bandstand, coupled with film of Morrison and Pamela Courson at Kern River, near Bakersfield, California.