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In The Arms of Morphia

from A Bit of Change by Edward St Moritz

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There is a B&B on the south shore of l’Île d’Orléans on the St Lawrence River named “Dans les Bras de Morphée” - “In the Arms of Sleep”. Given my turn of mind, Morphia is a lovely bit of Baudelairian metaphor for opium addiction, or for any addiction for that matter. And that is where the song goes…

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In the Arms of Morphia

I wish I could stay on this island
Where tides tear holes in the shore
Where cry of gull and steamer’s hulls
Fly into the deep and more

In the sweet arms of Morphia
Caught between river and sea
I slept in the black and woke in the grey
The sun never waited for me, for me
The sun never waited for me

I wish I could stay in this orchard
Of apples and nipples and rum
Where wisp woody smoke and lavender toke
Foretell of good things to come

Deep in the arms of Morphia
Step nightmare and ecstasy’s feet
I remember them well
Those ghostly old shells
But they always caught up to me, to me
They always caught up to me

Now I must leave by evening
God’s fingernail beckons me west
On rivers of asphalt, road salt, and no fault
My wickedness searching for rest

Away from your arms, oh Morphia
I’ll miss your tart foretaste of death
If my memory’s lost
Like October’s first frost
Desire will keep you like breath, my breath
Desire ever keeps you like breath.

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from A Bit of Change, released April 30, 2020

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Edward St Moritz Barrie, Ontario

Ed lives in Collingwood Ontario.

He and Don Bray produced his first CD of original songs Small Things Shining Bright and has just completed a second project A Bit of Change with Ray Dillard.

Why a darkside navigator?
“I am responsible for the directions I take in those gray territories. I do go into depression, but I also know how to sail through it. My songs are the maps of experience there.” ... more

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