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Sweet Morphine Lyrics
Oh my darling, you are the restless sea.
With your black heart raging over me.
Has the blue sky seen the same trouble as we?
Tell me true, my love, the restless sea.
There are three things never satisfied...The grave, your heart, and mine.
But I will hold you in my arms, where rust and sorrow lie underneath the
bounding main tonight.
By now, you must've found better than me...
I'm sure Jupiter and Orpheus have charmed you off your feet.
By now, I'm sure you've gotten over me.
While you're kissing clouds and gods, I'll be crawling on my knees.
Sweet morphine. Sweet morphine.
And yes, I've come to know you are the endless night.
High above my love, and the constellation light.
Waving your fingertips of sleep over the dark on the face of the deep.
Endless night, I know you well, indeed.
By now, you must've found better than me...
I'm sure Jupiter and Orpheus have charmed you off your feet.
By now, I'm sure you've gotten over me.
While you're kissing clouds and gods, I'll be crawling on my knees.
Sweet morphine. Sweet morphine.
By now, you must've found better than me...
I'm sure Jupiter and Orpheus have charmed you off your feet.
Oh by now, I'm sure you've gotten over me.
While you're kissing clouds and gods, I'll be crawling on my knees.
Sweet morphine. Sweet morphine.
With your black heart raging over me.
Has the blue sky seen the same trouble as we?
Tell me true, my love, the restless sea.
But I will hold you in my arms, where rust and sorrow lie underneath the
bounding main tonight.
I'm sure Jupiter and Orpheus have charmed you off your feet.
By now, I'm sure you've gotten over me.
While you're kissing clouds and gods, I'll be crawling on my knees.
Sweet morphine. Sweet morphine.
High above my love, and the constellation light.
Waving your fingertips of sleep over the dark on the face of the deep.
Endless night, I know you well, indeed.
I'm sure Jupiter and Orpheus have charmed you off your feet.
By now, I'm sure you've gotten over me.
While you're kissing clouds and gods, I'll be crawling on my knees.
Sweet morphine. Sweet morphine.
I'm sure Jupiter and Orpheus have charmed you off your feet.
Oh by now, I'm sure you've gotten over me.
While you're kissing clouds and gods, I'll be crawling on my knees.
Sweet morphine. Sweet morphine.
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Submitted by
xheartbreakerx On Aug 22, 2014
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@jmw9 I tend to disagree, seeing as Jupiter is preceding. They're both mythological gods, with Orpheus being a particular charmer. So it makes perfect sense that mythical figures are trying to seduce his lost love while he does anything to get through the pain (sweet morphine - either figuratively or literally).
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True and the closer I listened with better headphones it is in fact Orpheus. Still me myself having back surgery losing all my friends and love interests the only thing I had was painkillers so I guess opiates seemed to speak to me lol. Funny his upcoming solo album is called painkillers. :P
True and the closer I listened with better headphones it is in fact Orpheus. Still me myself having back surgery losing all my friends and love interests the only thing I had was painkillers so I guess opiates seemed to speak to me lol. Funny his upcoming solo album is called painkillers. :P
I like this song but I'm not sure the lyric Orpheus I'm more inclined to think its opiates since the song is called sweet morphine which is an opiate.
I think he is comparing a woman's love to the effect morphine has on the body and mind. Something you become addicted and used to...something you need and yearn for.
For those of you who didn't know, Get Hurt was written while Fallon was going through a divorce. This song is most likely about his ex wife, as a lot of the songs on this album are. I don't think there's any deeper meaning than that. He may very well have been turning to morphine at the time to take the edge off.