MORPHINE - YOU LOOK LIKE RAIN

YOU LOOK LIKE RAIN

MORPHINE

SONGWRITER: MARK SANDMAN

COUNTRY: U.S.A.

ALBUM: GOOD

LABEL: ACCURATE

GENRE: ALTERNATIVE ROCK

YEAR: 1992

Good is the first album recorded by the Boston-based alternative rock trio Morphine. It was originally released in 1992 on the Accurate label, and then re-released by Rykodisc in 1993.

Morphine was an American alternative rock group formed by Mark Sandman, Dana Colley, and Jerome Deupree in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1989. After five successful albums and extensive touring, they disbanded in 1999 after frontman Sandman died of a heart attack. Founding members have reformed into the band Vapors of Morphine, maintaining much of the original style and sound.

Morphine combined blues and jazz elements with more traditional rock arrangements, giving the band an unusual sound. Sandman sang distinctively in a "deep, laid-back croon", and his songwriting featured a prominent beat influence. The band themselves coined the label "low rock" to describe their music, which involved "a minimalist, low-end sound that could have easily become a gimmick: a "power trio" not built around the sound of na electric guitar. Instead, Morphine expanded its offbeat vocabulary on each album."

The band enjoyed positive critical appraisal, but met with mixed results commercially. In the United States the band was embraced and promoted by the indie rock community, including public and college radio stations and MTV's 120 Minutes, which the band once guest-hosted, but received little support from commercial rock radio and other music television programs. This limited their mainstream exposure and support in their home country, while internationally they enjoyed high-profile success, especially in Belgium, Portugal, France and Australia.

Your mind and your experience call to me

You have lived and your intelligence is sexy

I want to know what you got to say (x3)

I can tell you taste like the sky cause you look like rain

You look like rain (x8)

You think like a whip on a horse's back

Stretched out to the limit you make it crack

Send that horse round and round the track

I want to know what you got to say (x3)

I can tell you taste like the sky cause you look like rain

You look like rain (x16)

Yea you look like rain

You look like rain.