Okay, Mark Sandman, how could someone with a name like that can't be a fucking musician? The guy is a master, and of course, it is important to remember that he plays fretless bass and with only two strings, this is absurdly incredible and fundamental to the sound they present. Dana Colley's saxophone is unique, I never found anything similar in music. It is as if Morphine were the sad Jazz who relaxed and decided to be ordinary music with verse, chorus, verse. However, that plays with its melancholy of notes and daydreams, carried by a wonderful base of the bass of Mark and the rhythmic and perfect drums of Jerome Deupree. Morphine had several great compositions that deserve to be highlighted, but following the logic of more previous posts, I prefer to focus on one and make this way a reinforcement on the quality and attention that I give the same and I hope that you contemplate it with the same energy and emotion that I.
The chosen song was Cure for Pain, from the album of the same name. For me, this song sums up everything that Morphine is, dense, gloomy, melancholy, intense, timeless, almost surreal, and passionate:
The lyrics, by themselves, are already very good, and worth reading:
Cure For Pain
Where is the ritual?
And tell me where, where is the taste?
Where is the sacrifice?
And tell me where, where is the faith?
Someday there'll be a cure for pain
That's the day I throw my drugs away
When they find a cure for pain
Where is the cave where the wise woman went?
And tell me where, where's all that money that I spent?
I propose a toast
To my self control
You see it crawlin' helpless on the floor
Someday there'll be a cure for pain
That's the day I throw my drugs away
When they find a cure for pain
Find a cure for
Find a cure for pain
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