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Tore open a package it was an empty box
No meaning to me just an empty box
Sender was a woman
Sender was a woman
She said she's sending me everything that I I I never gave her before
She said fill it up and send it back
Fill it up and send it back
So I send her back an empty box
A big mistake sent back an empty box
Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound
I crossed into a valley a valley so dark
That when I look back I can't see where I begin
I can't see my hands
I don't even know if my eyes are open
In the morning I was by the sea
And I swam out as far as I could swim
Until I was too tired to swim anymore
And then I floated and tried to get my strength back
And then an empty box came floating by
An empty box and I crawled inside
Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound in the night
Half in the shadows half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound
| dkwalika (Upper Midwest) | Posted: Mar 24, 2013 - 07:21 Sounds like the Doors, and that's a good thing. |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Nov 18, 2012 - 20:01 Stefen wrote: Have you ever been in a place so dark that you didn't know if your eyes were open? Yes, when I put on my head with wings, backwards. |
| Dahlia_Gumbo (San Francisco) | Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 11:32 Groovey, groovey, groovey. |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Oct 18, 2012 - 11:30 it's a song for maru. |
| fredriley (Nottingham, UK) | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 10:37 Stefen wrote: Have you ever been in a place so dark that you didn't know if your eyes were open? Yep. Many places in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. Knoydart comes immediately to mind, one night when I'd gone to its only (and excellent) pub but forgot to pack a torch, and quite literally could see nothing on a cloudy night. I had to navigate my way back to the B&B by sound alone. Spooky. |
| Proclivities (Carrboro, NC) | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 10:36 Misterfixit wrote: Is that a Double E-Flat Contrabass Sarusphone I hear playing down in the basement? Is that what that is? Cool sound. |
| jr2571 (NYC) | Posted: Aug 16, 2012 - 10:34 Such an appropriate band name |
| Misterfixit (Nashville) | Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 09:15 Is that a Double E-Flat Contrabass Sarusphone I hear playing down in the basement? |
| Euskadita (MX) | Posted: Jun 14, 2012 - 09:11 ...big mistake send back an empty box.. This song is a great unique atmosphere |
| apd (Toronto, On) | Posted: Feb 08, 2012 - 11:53 Tore open a package it was an empty box No meaning to me just an empty box Sender was a woman She said she's sending me everything that I ever gave her before oh, that's gotta hurt... |
| TerryS (Another SW) | Posted: Aug 02, 2011 - 21:05 Stingray is like ChickenMan, he's everywhere, he's everywhere. Unfortunately. |
| MinMan (Bay Area, CA) | Posted: May 31, 2011 - 20:35 WTF - on two counts... |
| Stingray (EUROPE) | Posted: Dec 25, 2010 - 13:26 Hello RP-Listeners! I wish all of you "MERRY CHRISTMAS", wherever you are - whoever you wanna be! Christmas is a sweet-naive tradition - not a religious event! I like it anyway! Still - I hope Bill takes the chance to rock the christmas-tree to pieces tonight! "Happy Christmas your "BAD SANTA", aka STINGRAY -from Cologne/Germany- PS Sermon of the day (promise: I'm serious): The "Three Wise Men" - Melchior, Balthasar + Caspar are buried in a golden sarcophage in"our" dome, the famous "Cologne dome" - the third highest church-building in the world - right in the very centre of town, next to the Rhine. A gothic building of extra-class! Have a look: http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Koelner_Dom_bei_Nacht_1_RB.JPG&filetimestamp=20060517174554 The "grave" for the non-believers: http://www.koelner-dom.de/17450.html?&L=1 + http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrine_of_the_Three_Kings |
| countyman (Pittsburgh) | Posted: Oct 23, 2010 - 04:21 AHHHHH! Morphine in the morning! Can't beat it. |
| kingfish2004 (That GREAT country of Texas!) | Posted: Mar 14, 2010 - 12:28 It is different, not bad. |
| belalugosi (Bogotá (Colombia)) | Posted: Mar 14, 2010 - 12:24 Dirktooth wrote: Yes. Yes, i have been there! maybe i be there now! |
| Dirktooth (El Segundo, CA) | Posted: Jan 10, 2010 - 11:06 Stefen wrote: Have you ever been in a place so dark that you didn't know if your eyes were open? Yes. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Jan 10, 2010 - 11:06 They must have gone in the studio after a heavy dose of Valium... I like this song... it is very sedative... |
| RadioDoc (Chicagoland) | Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 17:08 Papernapkin wrote: All morphine songs sound the same. Sort of like all your comments sound the same. |
| SmackDaddy (San Diego) | Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 17:05 a2 wrote: For sure. At least the ones I've heard. That's like saying all guitar-based songs sound the same. Morphine had a distinctive style and just like any band with a distinctive style, it becomes readily recognizable, and, of course, if one doesn't learn the bands style it would seem they sound alike. However, in reality they don't. |
| Stefen (West Hollywood, CA) | Posted: Nov 08, 2009 - 17:04 Have you ever been in a place so dark that you didn't know if your eyes were open? |
| a2 (Michigan) | Posted: Oct 08, 2009 - 04:22 Papernapkin wrote: All morphine songs sound the same. For sure. At least the ones I've heard. |
| Papernapkin (Mountain View, CA) | Posted: Jul 05, 2009 - 11:07 All morphine songs sound the same. |
| ValosAtreide (Ohio, USA) | Posted: Jul 05, 2009 - 11:06 I just love that sax... sounds absolutely gritty and sleazy.. great tone ;) Also, nice lyrics. |