I tore open the package it was an empty box
No meaning to me just an empty box
Sender was a woman
Sender was a woman
She said she's sending me everything that I... I... I never gave her... before, she said:
Fill it up and send it back
Fill it up and send it back
So I sent 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 [in the night]
I crossed into a valley, a valley so dark that when I look back I can't see where I began, I can't see my hands, I don't even know if my eyes are open.
In the morning I was by the sea and I swam out as far as I could swim 'til I was too tired to swim anymore and then I floated and tried to get my strength back.
And then an empty box came floatin' by, an empty box and I crawled inside.
Half in the shadows, half in the husky moonlight
And half insane just a sound in the night
Half in the shadows, half in the hustky moonlight
And half insane just a sound [in the night]
No meaning to me just an empty box
Sender was a woman
Fill it up and send it back
A big mistake, sent back an empty box
And half insane just a sound [in the night]
And half insane just a sound in the night
And half insane just a sound [in the night]
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Well, my only quesion in this song is if she was sending him everything he "never" gave her before, and what she sent him was an empty box, then wouldn't that mean he gave her everything?
I created an account just to respond to your question. Though I doubt you'll ever read it, maybe it will help other souls in need of, erm, Morphine.
I created an account just to respond to your question. Though I doubt you'll ever read it, maybe it will help other souls in need of, erm, Morphine.
That is precisely what it means. And she wants more ("fill it up and send it back").
That is precisely what it means. And she wants more ("fill it up and send it back").
Hes got nothing left to give anymore, though. In fact he's "crossed into a valley, a valley so dark that when I look back I can't see where I began, I can't see my hands, I don't even know if my eyes are open."
Hes got nothing left to give anymore, though. In fact he's "crossed into a valley, a valley so dark that when I look back I can't see where I began, I can't see my hands, I don't even know if my eyes are open."
So basically this song says to me that he used to have an amazing relationship with this woman to whom he gave everything but now he's fallen into a dark world and has nothing to offer anymore. Sounds like he's ready to die.
So basically this song says to me that he used to have an amazing relationship with this woman to whom he gave everything but now he's fallen into a dark world and has nothing to offer anymore. Sounds like he's ready to die.
The lyrics do not imply that he gave her anything at all. On the contrary.
The lyrics do not imply that he gave her anything at all. On the contrary.
I love these lyrics. In strict logic, he apparently gave her everything, but I think the song meaning is the opposite. This woman, like many people, spoke illogically, but her meaning was clearly something many men have heard from many women: she is bitter because he never gave her as much as she wanted, and she is giving him "one last chance" to make it up.
I love these lyrics. In strict logic, he apparently gave her everything, but I think the song meaning is the opposite. This woman, like many people, spoke illogically, but her meaning was clearly something many men have heard from many women: she is bitter because he never gave her as much as she wanted, and she is giving him "one last chance" to make it up.
His "screw you" response was a big mistake. After the crystal-clear "big mistake" line, the lyrics get oblique but I think they describe the damage her consequent anger did to his spirits....
His "screw you" response was a big mistake. After the crystal-clear "big mistake" line, the lyrics get oblique but I think they describe the damage her consequent anger did to his spirits.
His dark, damaged tone of voice on the lines "Sender was a woman" and "Big mistake" convey his feelings about female rage.
The empty box he crawls into is a wonderful paradox, suggesting both a life raft and a coffin. He would choose to die to find respite from this storm.
I rather agree with raven9; the image of "empty box" is illogical, it is an oxymoron like loud silence etc. She is sending him "an empty box" or "everything he never gave her" which means she is actually sending him her heart, her longing for him he could "fill up". But in the first place he does not understand or wants her feelings, for him it is " just an empty box" (=a needy woman whose feelings he can not satisfy). But after the dark period, "being too tired to swim anymore" he realizes that he made a mistake rejecting a true feeling, and now he is ready to feel her up with all of his presence. Deep and simple.
He waits impatiently to see what is in the box, under the cover "I tore open the package". There is nothing in the box. She replies something like "Well there could have been something if you ever gave me anything at the first place". She insists on making him gave her something "Fill it up and send it back" or she could just have said: "Try one more time but this time harder". He wouldn't fill it up. Then follows a crises of "Where I am, who I am, what's the point?". Which reminds him that he is always in this crises and if he sees an empty box (a ready woman) he can try to rest on her for a while.
This is the way that I also interpret it. I'd send that bitch the empty box back too.
One thing I considered was that his period of darkness and floating aimlessly caused him to look for some sort of help and although the box was empty, just the memory of that incident somehow gave him some peace.