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I looked around and all up and down
I never wasted time on two or three
There's only one girl for me
There was a time she used to treat me fine
But lately she's been acting awful stoned
Makes a man weep alone
eye dee oh lay ee tee
eye dee leeldle odle ay oo ee tee
eye dee oh lee tee
lee tee
deedle ohdle lee tee
My Morphine be the death of me
You should have seen me and my Morphine
When we used to go dancing in the war
Spin me right off the floor
eye dee oh lay ee tee
eye dee leeldle odle ee odle ee tee
eye dee odle ee tee
lee tee
deedle odle lee tee
My Morphine be the death of me
Morphine, Morphine, what made you so mean?
You never used to do me like you do
Where's that sweet gal i knew?
eye dee oh lee tee
eye dee leedle odle ay odle ay tee
eye dee oh lay tee
lee tee
deedle odle lee tee
My Morphine be the death of me
My Morphine
I never wasted time on two or three
There's only one girl for me
But lately she's been acting awful stoned
Makes a man weep alone
eye dee leeldle odle ay oo ee tee
eye dee oh lee tee
lee tee
deedle ohdle lee tee
My Morphine be the death of me
When we used to go dancing in the war
Spin me right off the floor
eye dee leeldle odle ee odle ee tee
eye dee odle ee tee
lee tee
deedle odle lee tee
My Morphine be the death of me
You never used to do me like you do
Where's that sweet gal i knew?
eye dee leedle odle ay odle ay tee
eye dee oh lay tee
lee tee
deedle odle lee tee
My Morphine be the death of me
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Submitted by
errorcore On Nov 13, 2007
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This song is about a soldiers addiction to morphine. During the civil war soldiers where given large amounts of morphine for there pains and many became addicted. The narrator is romanticizing there addiction to drugs. Great song too.
i've never been able to confirm whether the morphine is a metaphor for a woman or whether the song is personifying an addiction. anyone any idea?
I really think this song is about addiction. Getting high was good for a while, but then it just turned into a disease that ruined his life.
I thought the line that followed, "You should have seen me and my Morphine" was, "When we used to go dancing in the wall". I thought so because the line that follows, "Spin me right off the floor". It made sense. "War" does not make sense.
"War" is probably correct. Morphine was used as a battlefield painkiller during the Civil War and wounded soldiers were routinely sent home with a supply. It was easily available in drug stores and through the mail. It is estimated that following the civil war there were 400 to 500 thousand morphine addicts in the US.
"War" is probably correct. Morphine was used as a battlefield painkiller during the Civil War and wounded soldiers were routinely sent home with a supply. It was easily available in drug stores and through the mail. It is estimated that following the civil war there were 400 to 500 thousand morphine addicts in the US.
http://www.narconon.ca/morphine.htm
http://www.narconon.ca/morphine.htm
Plus, "war" rhymes with "floor". "Wall" doesn't rhyme with "floor".
Plus, "war" rhymes with "floor". "Wall" doesn't rhyme with "floor".
Dancing in the "WAR" totally makes sense if you think of this song as a love song from a soldier to his "lady love", the pain killer Morphene. I've always thought that was the meaning of this great song.
Dancing in the "WAR" totally makes sense if you think of this song as a love song from a soldier to his "lady love", the pain killer Morphene. I've always thought that was the meaning of this great song.