Empty Box - Lyrics by Morphine


Lyrics
I tore open the package it was an empty box no meaning to me just anempty box sender was a woman she said she's sending me everything Inever gave her before she said: Fill it up + send it back, so I sent herback an empty box.  A big mistake, sent back an empty box half in theshadows, half in the husky moonlight, and half insane just a sound inthe night I enter a valley so dark that when I look back I can't seewhere I began, I can't see my hands, I don't even know if my eyes areopen.  In the morning I was by the sea and I swam out as far as I couldswim 'til I was too tired to swim anymore and then I floated and triedto get by strength back.  Then an empty box came floatin' by, an emptybox and I crawled inside half in the shadows, half in the huskymoonlight + half insane
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