Morphine.

Where is the cave

Where the wise woman went

And tell me where

Where's all that money that I spent

I propose a toast to my self control

You see it crawling helpless on the floor

Someday there'll be a cure for pain

That's the day I throw my drugs away

~ Cure For Pain.

Let's take a trip together

Headlong into the irresistible orbit

Breathing the cold black space

With the glistening edges

~ Let's Take A Trip Together.

Candy asked me if she died if I could go on

Of course I said I couldn't

and of course we knew that's wrong

But Candy

I said Candy

no you can't do that to me

Because you love me way to much

for you to ever leave

Candy said she's made arrangements for me in the sand

And Candy said she wants me with her

down in Candyland

~ Candy Says.

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 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

~ Empty Box.

I know a way to swim all the way downtown

It's a lot like swimming the first time over your head

It gets easier when you move your arms and legs

And for air you lift your head

why don't we try it right now

~ Like Swimming.

Early to bed and early to rise

Makes a man or woman

miss out on the night life

I think it's worth it for you to stay awake

Maybe tomorrow

you'll be a little late

~ Early To Bed.

I absolutely loved Morphine and these two albums, Like Swimming and Cure For Pain, really captured all that smoky, late night, wee hour in the morning, just came out of a swingin bar onto the empty street lit up only by a couple of street lamps. Unfortunately the band was no more after Mark Sandman passed away in 1999. How do I describe these songs? Jazz? Indie? I don't know. All I know was that it created an atmosphere apt for a night owl like me. These songs are great for a lonely drive home along some rain drenched highways after a long night...