Buena

Sigh... Mark Sandman was not a heroin addict. There's no evidence even to suggest he ever even used heroin once. He died of a heart attack, and the heart attach was NOT caused by drugs. The vast majority of his songs are about women, sex, and love gone wrong, but a few songs that have ambiguous lyrics that MIGHT be about drugs are what everyone focuses on.

You don't have to personally be a drug addict to write insightful lyrics about the effects of drugs, just as you don't have to be a murderer to write a song about murder.

Sandman himself said he was never into drugs, and his band and others who knew him have repeatedly said the same.

But the drug addict thing just won't die. It's sad that we've become so jaded that we can't imagine an artist's inspiration coming from anything but chemical dependency.

Does anyone ever thought that devil named Buena could be the music itslef instead of drugs? Man, always the drugs stuff...

This song is about public demends and artist's respect and disrespect of it. When artist go after public request he is no longer "the same". So Buena is the addiction to public appreciation.

you are right, or so methinks.. in more than one song of his there are references to it.. sad to have lost his musical talent and genius.

I think that he starts out talking about some jackass yelling out at a concert "Play something good!!" Then Mark calls the fool up to the stage to hear them totally bust out into an amazing chorus. And Yes, I think that the last verse describes how he found his amazing talent...herione I believe

I dont care what you guys say about Mark Sandman, with a band name like "morphine" and songs like this its pretty obvious he was at the least experimenting and fooling around with opiates. Buena makes me think of a chola prostitute or heroin. Most jazz and blues musicians are familiar with drugs. Even if this song isnt directly related to heroin, it could be weed or something. Its not a woman, you can tell, its something he wants to turn the world unto.

This was my first Morphine favorite back in the '90s and I always thought it was about opiates. He's trying to clue us in to some secret, so it's not about sex. And he mentions how the devil turned him onto it, so it's probably taboo or illegal. Big deal, guys, so he wrote a song about a drug. It didn't make anyone I know start using opiates. It's just a great freakin' song that could have been about the moon or the ocean. Doesn't matter. I just wish he was still writing songs...

As a morphine's fan,in my opinion Mark absolutely was a Kerouac smoker,not a heroin addicted. There

i love this song. and as cliche as it sounds, i think it's about heroin. but i'm probably wrong. i usually am. peace out.

I know Morphine fans are rabidly into denying any connection between the lyrics, the music and drugs, but goddamnit, I loved Mark as much as anybody and the songs convey the treacherous, deadly, wonderful pleasures of some drugs better than anything else by anybody! How the hell does that happen without some knowledge and intent?

From what I know about Sandman, he was way too smart to be an addict, but the music itself, beyond the lyrics (pretty clearly in some cases), conveys at least the temptation of some high that is beyond the natural "high on life" pleasures straight society would limit us to. I mean, listen to his songs about succumbing to ill-advised sexual liasons...the first person character always gives in to it, whatever the consequences. Part of reason I loved him, because that was me, too. I survived my bad decisions, both with women and drugs, as I'm sure Sandman would have had tragedy not struck.

But don't be so defensive, fellow Morphine fans. Saying a song is about drugs, when it perfectly conveys a drug experience, is NOT saying anything bad about Morphine or Sandman.