Empty Box
12/26/2005 07:06 p.m.
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 ever 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 ...

-Empty Box, Morphine
lyrics by Mark Sandman (1952-1999)

I can think of a few acquaintances I should send an empty box. In my opinion, Mark Sandman is the most prolific songwriter of our time. If you've never listened to Morphine, I implore you to listen. Like the narcotic, addiction sets in after just one song.

I am currently Melancholy
I am listening to Morphine - Like Swimming