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.